From a 150-year-old alcohol bottle unearthed in Utah—where the “real treasure” might be what it once tasted like—to footprints in White Sands New Mexico which are more than 20,000 years old, this episode spans the surprisingly fragile side of archaeology. We also dig into a discovery being called the oldest clothing in human history, and what it can (and can’t) tell us about early humans, preservation, and the everyday technologies that rarely survive.

Links

Segment 1

• 150-Year-Old Alcohol Bottle Found in Utah. Here’s What the ‘Real Treasure’ Tasted Like

Segment 2

• Archaeologists find footprints that rewrite the timeline of humans in the Americas
• Paleolake geochronology supports Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) age for human tracks at White Sands, New Mexico (Science Advances)

Segment 3

• Complex perishable technologies from the North American Great Basin reveal specialized Late Pleistocene adaptations
• Scientists Discovered the Oldest Clothing in Human History

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