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The Bed: Some 70,000 Years in the Making. (cover story)
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- Author(s): Fagan, Brian; Durrani, Nadia
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Natural History; Feb2020, Vol. 128 Issue 2, p28-33, 6p, 6 Color Photographs, 1 Black and White Photograph
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Our closest living relative, the chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), gives us an insight into how we might have made our beds. This means their beds are surprisingly clean, harboring far fewer fecal and skin bacteria than are found in the average human bed. Two stone bed boxes jutted from one wall, flanking the hearth on either side. Parker Pearson thought immediately of the Skara Brae beds, but these boxes had been set in wood. [Extracted from the article]
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