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Europe’s Oldest Textiles Emerge from an 8,000-Year-Old Neolithic Village Beneath an Italian Lake
Beneath the still waters of central Italy, archaeologists have uncovered a rarely preserved side of early human life—textiles, baskets, and cords woven nearly 8,000 years ago. The finds come from the submerged Neolithic settlement of La Marmotta, offering one of the clearest windows yet into Europe’s earliest fiber technologies. Unlike stone tools or pottery, organic…