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    Neanderthal Wilma

    Today I´m going to visit the Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, the site of the first neanderthal remains found.
    They now have the reconstruction of Wilma, a neanderthal woman, dressed in:








    Yes, Trousers!
    http://www.wz-newsline.de/?redid=470273&b=2 (better photo)

    "Wizards in trousers? Not in my university! It`s sissy. People´d laugh." said Ridcully.
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    So Neanderthal women wore pants...

    Um, what did Neanderthal men wear?
    I tried to ask my inner curmudgeon before posting, but he sprayed me with the garden hose…
    Yes, I have squirrels in my brain…

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    A very early precursor of the kilt, of course:

    loincloth!
    "Wizards in trousers? Not in my university! It`s sissy. People´d laugh." said Ridcully.
    Christian Pipe Smoker
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    Well... I guess they knew what they were doing.

    I think that would count as a pleated canvas, or leather, man skirt...
    Last edited by Bugbear; 21st March 09 at 01:01 AM.
    I tried to ask my inner curmudgeon before posting, but he sprayed me with the garden hose…
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    Just tells you who wears the pants in that family. Now I am not sure that phrase has the same meaning for me anymore.

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