Archaeologists alsorecoveredthe oldest known bead in the Americas from this same site.
Its worth noting that in 2016, archaeologists discovered a 50,000-year-oldneedlethe oldest known to scholarsin Siberia.
The technology, however, may have been lost and then rediscovered.
A needle from the LaPrele archaeological site made from the bone of a fox.© Todd Surovell
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Now, scientists say it belonged to a Denisovan man.
The bone needle fragments compared to the animals they may have come from. © Pelton et al., 2024, PLOS ONE,CC-BY 4.0
