Middleston Age Bedding Construction and Settlement Patterns

It's impossible to know for sure at this point, given the evidence we have. But that is an interesting possibility. And it's intriguing to imagine that technology, fire and the bed played a role in its emergence. Modern people, homo sapians, who were physically and mentally like ourselves, visited the shelter at least 15 times between 77 thousand and 38 thousand years ago and slept there. Thick swaths of grasses, sedges and rushes still grow by the river tell a story of regular but careful slumber.