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Flat bone sewing needle found at Gourdan Cave, Haute-Garonne, France. It belongs to the western European Magdalenian culture (c. 17,000 - c. 10,000 years ago) of the Late- or Upper Palaeolithic industry (c. 50,000/40,000 - c. 10,000 years ago). It was made by anatomically modern humans.
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Descouens, D. (2016, December 19). Magdalenian Bone Sewing Needle. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/6186/magdalenian-bone-sewing-needle/
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