McKenna Litynski: Sewing Technologies of the Ice Age

Check out these references, including McKenna's dissertation!

McKenna's dissertation:

Litynski, M. K. L. (2025). Unraveling threads of the past: Evaluating cultural, functional, and environmental factors influencing the production and use of bone needles and awls (Doctoral dissertation, University of Wyoming).

Other sources:

Gilligan, I. (2010). The prehistoric development of clothing: Archaeological implications of a thermal model. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 17(1), 15–80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-009-90...

Pelton, S. (2018). A Thermoregulatory Framework for Hominin Research: Archaeological and Ethnographic Studies with Implications for Global Human Dispersal.

Pelton, S. R., Litynski, M. L., Allaun, S. A., Buckley, M., Govaerts, J., Schoborg, T. A., O’Brien, M., Hill, M. G., Sanders, P., Mackie, M. E., Kelly, R. L., & Surovell, T. A. (2024). Early Paleoindian use of canids, felids, and hares for bone needle production at the La Prele site, Wyoming, USA. PLoS ONE, 19(11), e0313610. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone....

Surovell, T. A., Litynski, M. L., Allaun, S. A., Buckley, M., Schoborg, T. A., Govaerts, J., O’Brien, M. J., Hill, M. G., & Sanders, P. (2024). Use of hare bone for the manufacture of a Clovis bead Scientific Reports, 14, 53390. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53...