It's all happening in Georgia. After Wednesday's announcement of the discovery of a pre-human skull comes this:
Archaeologists have discovered fibers used by prehistoric man a record 34,000 years ago to make clothes and rope, according to research published Thursday in the United States.The flax fibers, found during the excavation of a cave in Georgia, are the earliest known to have been used by humans, who probably turned them into linen and thread, a US-funded research team told the weekly journal Science.
"The cloth and thread would then have been used to fashion garments for warmth, sew leather pieces, make cloths, or tie together packs that might have aided the mobility of our ancient ancestors from one camp to another," said a press release.
As the team is US-funded, and the report is by-lined Washington, the accompanying Google map shows the Eastern US – which led me (and others) to assume that this was good ol' Georgia USA, the Peach State. But no: it would have been a better story, but it ain't so. We're back in the (ex-) USSR.
Mick Hartley 
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