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4,000-year-old burials in Sudan reveal world's oldest known evidence of head straps

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Bronze Age women in Nubia were carrying goods and young children on their heads using tumplines, a type of head strap that can hold a basket.

This is the " first clear evidence that women were using head straps as early as the Bronze Age," study lead author Jared Carballo-Pérez said.

Researchers made the finding in Sudan after analzying the remains of 30 people buried in a Nubian Bronze Age cemetery.

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