World’s Oldest Beds Found in Africa
by The bed of the oldest in the world, approximately 77,000 years old, was found in a cave in South Africa.
The bed is made of bundles of reed and the leaves of the quince tree (a type of pear). Professor Lyn Wadley of Wits University found that bed when excavating ancient sites in Sibudu, Carpe Argus.
Reported by Xinhuanet, Wednesday (12/28/2011), Wadley found the bed size is approximately 1×2m, buried in a sediment at a depth of more than 3 meters. Uniquely, the bed was covered with leaves of wild quince, which has a distinctive aroma. There can not find the leaves of other trees. This indicates the existence of quince leaf is not simply caused by the leaves that fall at random.
It also found evidence that the oldest beds in the world, several times burned to eliminate insects in it.
Bed makers are middle stone age man, who has mastered the manufacture of stone tools, including spear, dagger, rakes, and jewelry from shells. They also made tools from bone and dark yellow mixture, which is estimated as an insect repellent or paint.
Before the discovery of 77,000 year-old tampat sleep, the bed of the oldest ever known yagn approximately 25 000 years old, while the herbal medicines used in the earliest period of approximately 5000 years ago.
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