Earliest Human Beds Found in South Africa

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," wrote Benjamin Franklin in his Poor Richard's Almanack. That may have held true a couple of hundred years ago, but when it comes to our ancient human ancestors, researchers don't know much about how—or even where—they slept. Now a team working in South Africa claims to have found the earliest known sleeping mats, made of plant material and dated up to 77,000 years ago—50,000 years earlier than previous evidence for human bedding. These early mattresses apparently were even specially prepared to be resistant to mosquitoes and other insects.

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2 ... tml?ref=hp

Neat.

I agree very cool and wonder what other buried treasures we have beneath our feet on our planet?

Tempur Pedic.

CinnamonGirl wrote: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," wrote Benjamin Franklin in his Poor Richard's Almanack. That may have held true a couple of hundred years ago, but when it comes to our ancient human ancestors, researchers don't know much about how—or even where—they slept. Now a team working in South Africa claims to have found the earliest known sleeping mats, made of plant material and dated up to 77,000 years ago—50,000 years earlier than previous evidence for human bedding. These early mattresses apparently were even specially prepared to be resistant to mosquitoes and other insects.

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2 ... tml?ref=hp

I think I slept on one of those when I first went to college.

Grady wrote:

CinnamonGirl wrote: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise," wrote Benjamin Franklin in his Poor Richard's Almanack. That may have held true a couple of hundred years ago, but when it comes to our ancient human ancestors, researchers don't know much about how—or even where—they slept. Now a team working in South Africa claims to have found the earliest known sleeping mats, made of plant material and dated up to 77,000 years ago—50,000 years earlier than previous evidence for human bedding. These early mattresses apparently were even specially prepared to be resistant to mosquitoes and other insects.

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2 ... tml?ref=hp

I think I slept on one of those when I first went to college.

I think I would have liked to have one my first few nights in Saigon. Nearly got carried away by the misquotes before I nearly drown in the downpour.

But but the Myans say people only started in 3000 something BC.
Another myth debunked?