the bed bugs problem was taken care of by burning the place to the ground, for 44 ka.

A team of archaeologists has discovered 40 ka worth of mattresses stacked in South Africa’s Sibudu cave, 40 km north of Durban. Our Stone Age ancestors made bedding from leaves, seeds and stems of local rushes and grasses on the floor of the cave starting 77 ka ago. For the next 44 ka, nomadic Homo sapiens hunted and gathered in the area using Sibudu as their crash pad, compacting the plant material to create sleeping mats.

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