The early humans used bone needles and sinew to sew clothes of skin and fur.

原始人用骨针和筋绳缝制兽皮衣服。

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The early humans used bone needles and sinew to sew clothes of skin and fur.

古时的人用骨针和动物筋缝制毛皮衣裳。

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Their bare flesh is heavily decorated with tattoos made by their women with the dye of madder and woad, using the pinpricks of bone needles.

他们身上还饰有纹身。纹身是由妇女们用染出的茜红和菘蓝色彩，用骨头作成的针刺成的。

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And there are no bone awls or needles that would suggest that Neanderthals were skilled leather workers, despite the abundance of animal skins that their hunting would have provided.

ECONOMIST: Palaeoeconomics

Humans have been making needles for more than 20, 000 years, first out of bone and more recently out of metal.

FORBES: No. 13 The Needle