probably not; we can’t date knitting that early, and by a wide margin. The earliest knit goods are ~1000CE and Egyptian. The time period for these finds are ~

probably not; we can’t date knitting that early, and by a wide margin. The earliest knit goods are ~1000CE and Egyptian. The time period for these finds are ~>800 years earlier. Naalbinding existed then, and works fine for fingers with its regular tools, and is actually very different from knitting in its technique. I’m not convinced. I’m more concerned with the honest qualification of uncertainty in claims made about artifacts, though. The language of speculation and likelihood is a lot more intellectually honest than either the “ivory tower knows all” crowd OR the “folk wisdom knows all” gang’s respective positions. fwiw i’m also immediately suspicious whenever druids are invoked with any certainty: we know so shockingly little about them at all that the confidence interval on anything to do with them is super wide.