World's oldest pants/trousers discovered in Western China. - Polidicks

[IMG]http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5388eef1ecad041549fedae1-860-460/bb_trousers_free.jpg[/IMG] [quote]Two men whose remains were recently excavated from tombs in western China put their pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us. But these nomadic herders did so between 3,300 and 3,000 years ago, making their trousers the oldest known examples of this innovative apparel, a new study finds. With straight-fitting legs and a wide crotch, the ancient wool trousers resemble modern riding pants, says a team led by archaeologists Ulrike Beck and Mayke Wagner of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. The discoveries, uncovered in the Yanghai graveyard in China's Tarim Basin, support previous work suggesting that nomadic herders in Central Asia invented pants to provide bodily protection and freedom of movement for horseback journeys and mounted warfare, the scientists report May 22 in Quaternary International. "This new paper definitely supports the idea that trousers were invented for horse riding by mobile pastoralists, and that trousers were brought to the Tarim Basin by horse-riding peoples," remarks linguist and China authority Victor Mair of the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, Europeans and Asians wore gowns, robes, tunics, togas or — as observed on the 5,300-year-old body of Ötzi the Iceman — a three-piece combination of loincloth and individual leggings. Read more: [url]https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-pants-worn-horse-riders-3000-years-ago#ixzz33R06FilJ[/url][/quote] Can't get better images from the actual paper due to paywall, but still pretty awesome.

Those pants would be in style today. Probably $300 at Abercrombie, tears, dirt, rips and all.

Those really don't look 3,300 years old, especially with the patterns sewn into them. That's really interesting. They just look like abused modern trendy pants.

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;44973308]Those really don't look 3,300 years old, especially with the patterns sewn into them. That's really interesting. They just look like abused modern trendy pants.[/QUOTE] You know what they say, there's nothing new under the sun

If I can get to my campus library tomorrow, I might try and get some of the pictures mirrored so you can see them.

[QUOTE=Grenadiac;44973308]Those really don't look 3,300 years old, especially with the patterns sewn into them. That's really interesting. They just look like abused modern trendy pants.[/QUOTE] You should check out this subreddit if you find that interesting. [url]http://www.reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/[/url] Amazing stuff.

[QUOTE=outlawpickle;44973301]Those pants would be in style today. Probably $300 at Abercrombie, tears, dirt, rips and all.[/QUOTE] Nice Indie tribal patterns, hand made, obscure unknown desiger, 100% natural fabrics, genuine distressed fabric, genuine vintage $550 minimum

I wonder if they'd fit me.

[QUOTE=T553412;44973326]You know what they say, there's nothing new under the sun[/QUOTE] Tell it Solomon. "3 What advantage does man have in all his work Which he does under the sun? 4 A generation goes and a generation comes, But the earth remains forever. 5 Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hastening to its place it rises there again. 6 Blowing toward the south, Then turning toward the north, The wind continues swirling along; And on its circular courses the wind returns. 7 All the rivers flow into the sea, Yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, There they flow again. 8 All things are wearisome; Man is not able to tell it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor is the ear filled with hearing. 9 That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there anything of which one might say, “See this, it is new”? Already it has existed for ages Which were before us. 11 There is no remembrance of earlier things; And also of the later things which will occur, There will be for them no remembrance Among those who will come later still." - Ecclesiastes 1:3-11

This looks like some Undercoverism scabwork kind of stuff / punk jeans. Props if you know what that is, too.

[QUOTE=Midas22;44973648]Nice Indie tribal patterns, hand made, obscure unknown desiger, 100% natural fabrics, genuine distressed fabric, genuine vintage $550 minimum[/QUOTE] Second-hand, though. A person's dead ass was in that pants.

[QUOTE=sgman91;44975619]Tell it Solomon. "3 What advantage does man have in all his work Which he does under the sun? 4 A generation goes and a generation comes, But the earth remains forever. 5 Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hastening to its place it rises there again. 6 Blowing toward the south, Then turning toward the north, The wind continues swirling along; And on its circular courses the wind returns. 7 All the rivers flow into the sea, Yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, There they flow again. 8 All things are wearisome; Man is not able to tell it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor is the ear filled with hearing. 9 That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun. 10 Is there anything of which one might say, “See this, it is new”? Already it has existed for ages Which were before us. 11 There is no remembrance of earlier things; And also of the later things which will occur, There will be for them no remembrance Among those who will come later still." - Ecclesiastes 1:3-11[/QUOTE] Say what you will about the religions tied to it, those people knew how to write.