6000 year old fabric from Peru showing dying with indigo

Fabric from a civilization in coastal Peru over 6000 years ago shows that not only was weaving common but dying materials to use to created patterned cloth was used. So humans had expanded around the globe and reached a level of manufacturing to produce fabric as opposed to hide based material as well as having domesticated farming growing cotton as a material to create fabrics. The regularity of the pattern also shows that weaving had reached to level of having a loom as well as a shuttle for creating warp and woof.

Unfortunately they were also building temples and burying stuff inside. Just no sense of timing at all.

About a half decade ago I came across a study from the University of Chicago relating to confirmed dates when New World crops were cultivated. Maize was the original thing I was searching for but what amazed me was just how many different crops and sites were known and dated already in the New World.Here is a table from that study listing those sites known back in 2009. Of course there has been extensive additional research since then.