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Archaeologists Find Key Tool That Helped Ancient Americans Survive Ice Age
Bone needle and needle preform reconstructions, a tool used by ancient Americans to survive Ice Age. Credit: 2024 Pelton et al. / CC BY 4.0 Archaeologists in Wyoming have found a key tool that helped ancient Americans survive during the last ice age. At a site in Converse County, researchers uncovered 32 small pieces of needles made from animal bones. These artifacts were buried about 15 feet deep at a place called the La Prele site, where a mam…
By Katie Hunt, CNN Tiny artifacts unearthed at an archaeological site in Wyoming, where a mammoth was quartered 13,000 years ago, reveal intriguing details about how the first inhabitants of America survived the last Ice Age. Archaeologists found 32 fragments of bone needles buried nearly 5 meters deep at the site of La Prele, in Converse County. They are not the oldest eye needles in the archaeological record, but for the first time scientists …
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