North American Early Paleoindians almost 13,000 years ago used the bones of canids, felids, and hares to create needles in modern-day Wyoming, potentially to make the tailored fur garments which enabled their dispersal into these colder climates

North American Early Paleoindians almost 13,000 years ago used the bones of canids, felids, and hares to create needles in modern-day Wyoming, potentially to make the tailored fur garments which enabled their dispersal into these colder climates

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0313610

Article Title: Early Paleoindian use of canids, felids, and hares for bone needle production at the La Prele site, Wyoming, USA

Contact: Spencer Pelton, spencer.pelton@wyo.gov, Ph. +1 307 399 2827

Author Countries: U.S.

Funding: Funding for this project includes the National Science Foundation (award #1947297), the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, the Quest Archaeological Research Program at Southern Methodist University, the National Geographic Society, Ed and Shirley Cheramy, and the George C. Frison Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.