| There are some very early needles found in the archaeological record in Europe and certainly the earliest hunters in Norht America left evidence that they were using needles as part of their material culture. There is no direct evidence that I know of but these needles were probably used with sinew that had been tanned to be soft ans subtle. This was used to sew leather clothing togther etc. Sinew has great strength for very thin thread like pieces and I suspect that sinew may have been used very early by hunter gather groups to string there bone and shell beads.
DFrey |