Agriculture, Botany & Everyday Tech
Cotton cultivation and spinning
from ~5000 BCE (cotton) onwardIndus & later Indian farmersArchaeological & textile recordIndus region (India/Pakistan)
5,000 BCE
Among the earliest cultivation and spinning of cotton in the world.
- Dated
- 5,000 BCE
- As scholars put it
- from ~5000 BCE (cotton) onward
- Originator
- Indus & later Indian farmers
- Source text
- Archaeological & textile record
- Region
- Indus region (India/Pakistan)
- Discipline
- Agriculture, Botany & Everyday Tech
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Mechanised cotton spinning (18th-c. Britain) came far later.
Fair to say
Cotton was independently domesticated in the Americas too.
Path to modern innovation
Cotton remains a global staple fibre.
5,000 BCECotton cultivation and spinning
1 CE
401 CE
500 CE
1001Transmission
Cotton and cotton textiles were major Indian exports for millennia.
References
- 1Archaeology of Mehrgarh
- 2textile histories
Further reading
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