Quote Originally Posted by kilt_nave
Sorry guys, it must be the hurricane bearing down on me.

Dread, it occurs to me that facets of each culture on the planet seems to develop at or around the same time: this garment you have been talking about (American Native and Greco-Roman), polychromatic music (Gregorian chant and Aztec tonality), monumetal architecture (Chaco Canyon and Machu Pichu [Stonehenge?]). Couldn't we deduce that human cultures follow predictable paths of artistic and social expression?
Necessity is the mother of invention. Similar solutions to a common problem or need will re-appear within unrelated groups as a matter of survival. This also happens in nature with unrelated species... (both insects and birds fly). Non furcated wrap garments are simple and versatile. Similar versions will also appear within different groups. Very difficult to say what influences what over the course of time. Time for a scientific study in clothing cladogenetics :confused: perhaps it could be called "Kladistics for Kilts"! :o

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