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Animal Skins

Published Dec 23, 2007

The presence of needles suggests that Upper Paleolithic people had well-tailored clothing, probably made from animal skins and somewhat like that of modern Eskimos and some American Indians. Of course, the fact that many stone tools show evidence of having been used to work hide further supports the idea that clothing was made from skins. Wall engravings, such as this human interpreted as wearing an anorak from the Magdalenian cave of Gabillou, France also support this idea

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