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Show Knitting Fad in Prehistoric Arctic Circle Settlement Prehistoric knitting needles, five-teeth five-teeth combs and spoons of mammoth bone have been found In nn ancient settlement near Obdorsk, northern Siberia, by an expedition sent out by the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Academy of Science of the U. S. S. R. It has excavated ex-cavated 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 Yamal peninsula on which Obdorsk Ob-dorsk stands. The numerous remains found shows that tbe peninsula, which Is within the Arctic circle, was one densely populated. |