Study Suggests Needles and Awls Served Many Purposes - Archaeology Magazine

Study Suggests Needles and Awls Served Many Purposes - Archaeology Magazine

Bone needle LARAMIE, WYOMING—According to a statement released by the University of Wyoming, McKenna Litynski of the University of Wyoming and her colleagues reviewed hundreds of ethnographic documents dating from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries for patterns of needle and awl use, and determined that they were most commonly used for sewing. Statistical modeling of the information also suggests that the use of needles and awls was …