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    ARMENIAN ARCHEOLOGISTS: 5,900-YEAR-OLD SKIRT FOUND

    The Associated Press
    Tuesday, October 26, 2010; 3:15 PM
    YEREVAN, Armenia

    An Armenian archaeologist says that scientists have discovered a
    skirt that could be 5,900-year-old.

    Pavel Avetisian, the head of the Institute of Archeology and
    Ethnography in Yerevan, said a fragment of skirt made of reed was
    found during recent digging in the Areni-1 cave in southeastern
    Armenia. Avetisian told Tuesday's news conference in the Armenian
    capital that the find could be one of the world's oldest piece of
    reed clothing.

    Earlier excavation in the same location has produced what researchers
    believe is a 5,500-year-old shoe, making it the oldest piece of
    leather footwear known to researchers.

    Boris Gasparian, an Armenian archaeologist who worked jointly with
    U.S. and Irish scientists at the site, said they also found a mummified
    goat that could be 5,900-year-old, or more than 1,000 years older
    than the mummified animals found in Egypt.




    From: A. Papazian
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