Cordage
Jean Vaucher (August 2022) |
The use of ropes for hunting, pulling, fastening, attaching, carrying, lifting, and climbing dates back to prehistoric times. It is likely that the earliest "ropes" were naturally occurring lengths of plant fibre, such as vines, followed soon by the first attempts at twisting and braiding these strands together to form the first proper ropes in the modern sense of the word. The earliest evidence of true rope making is a very small fragment of three-ply cord from a Neanderthal site dated 50,000 years ago.[8]