Ancient blanket made with 11,500 turkey feathers
jsteward“Blankets or robes made with turkey feathers as the insulating medium were widely used by Ancestral Pueblo people, but little is known about how they were made because so few such textiles have survived due to their perishable nature,” said Bill Lipe, emeritus professor of anthropology at WSU and lead author of a new paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.
Lipe and a team of archaeologists analyzed an approximately 800-year-old turkey feather blanket from » More …