KNITTING NEEDLES
Prehistoric knitting needles, • fiveteeth combs, and spoons of mammoth bone have been found in an ancient settlement near Obdorsk, Northern Siberia, by an expedition sent out by the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. The expedition has returned to Moscow after seven months' work. . It has excavated 12,000 articles of pottery and bone, some of which are unique. Besides knitting needles, combs, and spoons, they include miniature hoes for tilling fields, pieces of melting pots for metal, and bones of animals and birds which no longer inhabit the Yama peninsula on which Obdorsk stands. The' numerous remains found shows that the peninsula, which is within the Arctic Circle, .was once densely populated.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 13
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121KNITTING NEEDLES Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 21, 25 January 1936, Page 13
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