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In this episode of Ethnocynology, David highlights a recent paper published about a bone needle he helped excavate in the summer of 2022.

While David wasn’t an author on the paper, he was there when it was excavated, recorded the moment, and recently conducted interviews with the two leading authors of the paper.

David discusses how he read a comment on his post about the needle that made him stop to think about how important such a small item could be to ancient Americans on the ice age plains.

David discusses how to read an academic paper, while conducting interviews with the researchers, weaving them into the podcast.

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LINK TO THE PAPER IS HERE:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...

Abstract:
We report the first identifications of species and element used to produce Paleolithic bone needles. Archaeologists have used the tailored, fur-fringed garments of high latitude foragers as modern analogs for the clothes of Paleolithic foragers, arguing that the appearance of bone needles and fur bearer remains in archaeological sites c. 40,000 BP is indirect evidence for the advent of tailored garments at this time. These garments partially enabled modern human dispersal to northern latitudes and eventually enabled colonization of the Americas ca. 14,500 BP. Despite the importance of bone needles to explaining global modern human dispersal, archaeologists have never identified the materials used to produce them, thus limiting understanding of this important cultural innovation. We use Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) and Micro-CT scanning to establish that bone needles at the ca. 12,900 BP La Prele site (Wyoming, USA) were produced from the bones of canids, felids, and hares. We propose that these bones were used by the Early Paleoindian foragers at La Prele because they were scaled correctly for bone needle production and readily available within the campsite, having remained affixed to pelts sewn into complex garments. Combined with a review of comparable evidence from other North American Paleoindian sites, our results suggest that North American Early Paleoindians had direct access to fur-bearing predators, likely from trapping, and represent some of the most detailed evidence yet discovered for Paleoindian garments.

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Timecodes
0:00 Intro credits
0:58 Intro
2:24 The Paper
3:48 Paper Introduction/Wyoming Cold
6:50 Dr. Pelton on LaPrele
7:59 Paleolithic life in Wyoming
9:03 Thermoregulation research
10:44 Work in Mongolia
11:34 Thermoregulation / Clothing
12:24 Why is a bone needle so important
14:32 Oldest Bone Needle?
15:31 Why you need them
17:27 Neanderthal hibernation?
19:21 Intro Summary
20:34 Making bone needles with Donny Dust
26:17 Methods and Materials / McKenna’s role
27:40 ZooMs process
32:30 David summarizes zooms / results
36:04 What happened to the needle?
35:29 Paper Results
38:27 Dr. Mackie explains the excavations
41:00 David on the paper results
42:41 Paper Discussion
43:03 Dr. Pelton on the results / trapping animals
45:54 Trapping animals / diet / thermoregulation
47:28 McKenna tool utility vs. Indigenous perspectives
49:42 Dr. Pelton’s ideas on Paleoindian life
51:03 McKenna’s future research
52:20 Paper conclusion
53:43 David’s final wrap-up and thoughts