An animal bone fragment full of human-made pits hints at how prehistoric people in Western Europe may have crafted clothing. The nearly 40,000-year-old artifact probably served as a punch board for ...

A Wyoming archaeological site where people killed or scavenged a Columbian mammoth nearly 13,000 years ago has produced yet another discovery that sheds light on the life of these early inhabitants of ...

This bone needle from an archaeological site in Wyoming is an example of bone needles found around the world used by ancient peoples to produce clothing and survive in cold climates. They also served ...

Micro-CT scans of the bone needles and the other examples of bone they were compared against © 2024 Pelton et al. / PLOS One under CC-BY-4.0 Archaeologists in ...

An analysis of a 39,600-year-old bone containing strange indentations claims it was used as a punch board for making holes in leather, revealing how Homo sapiens in Europe made clothes to help them ...

Ice Age humans in what is now Wyoming used bones from hares, bobcats, and mountain lions to craft sewing needles, new research suggests. Reading time 2 minutes While we take the stitching in our ...

A study led by McKenna Litynski, a Ph.D. graduate in anthropology and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Wyoming, confirms that ancient needles and awls enabled humans to survive in cold ...

This bone needle from an archaeological site in Wyoming is an example of bone needles found around the world used by ancient peoples to produce clothing and survive in cold climates. They also served ...