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Volume: 82 Number: 316 Page: 271–280 
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| Prehistoric string theory. How twisted fibres helped to shape the world |
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| Karen Hardy* |
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*BioArch, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5YW, UK (Email: |
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The author reviews the role of string in early human communities, using prehistoric and ethnographic evidence. Fibres, rolled into string, offer a technical means of holding things together; but the process of manufacturing string itself inspired special roles and structures - which in turn held together the members of communities.
Keywords: prehistory, string, fibre, cord, technology, ethnology, bags
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