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A tiny scrap of thread stuck to the lower side of a stone flake offers a huge insight into Neanderthal life. The 6. According to uranium-series dating , the thread came from a layer of sediment between 52, and 41, years old at a Neanderthal site called Abri du Maras, in France. When Kenyon College archaeologist Bruce Hardy and his colleagues looked at the thread under a microscope, the fibers turned out to be from bast: a fibrous layer of tissue just beneath the bark of a tree. These particular fibers had probably come from a conifer like pine, which would have been available nearby, according to pollen and charcoal traces from the site. An ancient craftsperson had twisted fibers together clockwise to make twisted bundles and then twisted three bundles together counterclockwise to make a three-ply cord. The cord was about 0.