TheAncientworld

 CLOTHING IS FITTED USING A NEEDLE AND THREAD. The history of sewing is closely allied to the history of tools. The earliest needles ever discovered date from the paleolithic era, around 25,000 B.C.E.Key finds from that period include needles in southwest France and near Moscow in Russia. These were made of ivory or bone, with an eyelet gouged out. Some have been found alongside the remains of foxes and hares that were used for their fur. Sewing allowed our early ancestors to make clothing more closely tailored to the human body, improving its insulation and comfort, as well as inviting decoration. Early scraps of cloth found in France and Switzerland have included decorative seeds or animal teeth sewn on by a thread, applied perhaps with the aid of fishbones or thorns. Native Americans sewed with the tips of agave leaves. Embroidery-complex, decorative needlework appeared in Bronze Age Egypt and India. In China silk was being sewn and embroidered in the same era. Protective thimbl...

 STONE AGE HUMANS PROGRESS TO SHARPENING THEIR TOOLS AND WEAPONS. The use of stone instruments more than two million years ago heralded what we call the stone age and the very origins of humankind. While it is impossible to date when distinctly worked stone blades first appeared in the world, It seems to have occurred circa 30,000 B.C.E. The technique that evolved to create sharp stones is now called lithic reduction. this involves the use of an implement to strike a stone block to break off flakes. Such flakes will be naturally sharp and be turned into a range of useful tools and weapons such as scrapers, scythes, knives arrowheads, or spear points. Some early toolmakers may also have used what was left of the stone block to make ax heads.  After the end of the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago, the period was characterized by increasingly sophisticated stone tools with multiple uses. Other tools were produced using blades made by knapped flint or obsidian, a type of natural...