Leather Working
Processing animal hides into durable, flexible leather using vegetable or mineral tanning agents.
Core metadata
- ID: leather_working
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -118000 (millennium)
- Region: Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
- Fire Control (fire_control)
- Foraging & Botany (foraging_and_botany)
- Contrebandiers Leather and Fur Working (hide_processing)
Dependents
- Bellows (bellows)
- Book Binding (Codex Production) (book_binding_codex_production)
- Chain Mail Armor (chain_mail_armor)
- Codex (Early Book Form) (codex_early_book_form)
- Horse Collar (horse_collar)
- Papyrus & Parchment Writing Surfaces (paper_making_papyrus_parchment)
- Sailing (sailing)
- Sling (sling)
- Stirrups (stirrups)
- Yokes & Harnesses (yokes_and_harnesses)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- A worked bone assemblage from 120,000-90,000 year old deposits at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco (iScience, 2021, primary_paper) • Supports: edge, node
Locator: Abstract/title and ASU research summary: Contrebandiers Cave deposits dated 120,000-90,000 years ago include bone tools used for leather and fur working.
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 70%
- Prerequisite sources: 2
- expert_inference: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contrebandiers Leather and Fur Working (hide_processing) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Hide Processing provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Foraging & Botany (foraging_and_botany) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Foraging & Botany provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
| Fire Control (fire_control) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Fire Control is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
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