Ancient Oregon Cave Reveals 12,400-Year-Old Garment That Could Be the Oldest Clothing on Earth

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There is something about Oregon’s high desert that changes you.

Maybe it is the silence stretching for miles. Maybe it is the way sagebrush bends in the wind like it has seen everything and is not impressed. Or maybe it is the staggering realization that people were surviving here more than twelve thousand years ago, long before the pyramids rose in Egypt, long before cities, long before most of the world even imagined permanence.

A few years ago in 2022, we stood inside Fort Rock Cave in Eastern Oregon. We brushed dust from ancient bedrock and listened to stories of sagebrush bark sandals uncovered beneath Mount Mazama’s

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