Today, I’m speaking with Dr. McKenna Litynski. McKenna is an expert in the archaeology of late Pleistocene and early holocene North America, and just recently earned her PhD studying paleolithic sewing technologies, including the analysis of the oldest bone needles ever found in the Western Hemisphere. We talk about the significance of needles, sewing, and clothing manufacture to ancient hunter-gatherers, and the role these technologies played in human history.
