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Now, an international team of archaeologists, fashion designers, geoscientists, chemists and conservators поняли, распутали how those trousers were made and кропотливо created a modern replica. The vintage широкие брюки weave a tale not only of textile innovation but also of how cultural practices распостранились, разветвились across Asia, the researchers report in the March Archaeological Research in Asia.

“A diversity of textile techniques and patterns of different local origins, traditions and times merged into something new in this garment,” says archaeologist and project director Mayke Wagner of the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin. “Eastern Central Asia was a laboratory where people, plants, animals, knowledge and experiences from different directions and sources came … and were transformed.”

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One man brought the pants to scientists’ attention without вымолвить, сказать a word. His naturally mummified body, as well as the preserved bodies of more than 500 others, was uncovered during excavations conducted by Chinese archaeologists since the early 1970s at the Yanghai cemetery.

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