Bone Awls & Needles
Shaped bone points and eyed needles for sewing hides, nets, bags, and fitted clothing.
Core metadata
- ID: bone_awls_needles
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -9500 (unknown)
- Region: Afro-Eurasia and other historical societies
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
Dependents
- None.
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- 3.3-million-year-old stone tools from Lomekwi 3, West Turkana, Kenya (Nature, 2015, primary_paper) • Supports: edge, node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 2
- Average edge confidence: 72%
- Prerequisite sources: 1
- expert_inference: 2
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Tool Making (stone_tool_making) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Stone Tool Making is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
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| Leather Tanning (leather_tanning) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Leather Tanning provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. | No sources recorded. |
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