Along with hundreds of stone and bone tools, the carbonised wood of a former dwelling, and
woven wild grass that is one of the earliest examples of a textile, were the incomplete bodies of five humans.
The site was of particular interest to population geneticist Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom because the skeletons of five humans were found with pottery, harpoons, and the remnants of nets and mats
woven from twisted blades of
wild sedge
grass — which some (but not all) researchers consider a rudimentary form of early agriculture.