Denisovan Bone Needle
50,000 BCE
A 50,000-year-old sewing needle carved from a bird bone, discovered in Denisova Cave in Siberia. It is the oldest and longest needle ever found, predating any Homo sapiens needles by at least 10,000 years. It was made by Denisovans — a recently discovered archaic human species known only from DNA and a handful of bone fragments.