Ancient Humans Used Indigo Plant 34,000 Years Ago: First Evidence of Non-Food Plant Processing Found in Georgia

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3. Theuse of indigo is pretty advanced

and is a mutti step process. Chances are they were dyeing themselves rather than anything else and were very light on possessions they couldn't eat or use to procure food.

Still, it begs the question of how they did it, since most of the process has to be done in liquid. I think this means we have to push back the date of the earliest form of low temperature fired pottery by a considerable amount.

We keep having to push tech milestones back farther and farther. Our ancestors and their co species were a lot samrter than they've been given credit for.