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Scientists Just Found The World’s Oldest Bed In A 200,000-Year-Old South African Cave Dwelling
Wadley et alResearchers believe fragments found inside South African cave sediment are remnants of world’s oldest known bed. About 200,000 years ago, humans took refuge in a cave in what is ...
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13 facts about the history of the bed
These raised platforms were essentially the first beds. In the West, being raised off the floor came to mean that you were of a higher social status, but this was not so in much of the world.