Show knitting 0 fad in Prebi prehistoric arctic circle Sctt settlement lement prehistoric knitting needles five fire teeth combs and epochs of mammoth bone have been found in an ancient settlement near Ob dorsk northern nort herD 1111 siberia lerla by an expedition sent out by the institute of anthropology and etheo ethnography raphy of the academy of science of the U S S R it has excavated articles of pottery and bone some of which are unique besides knitting needles combs and spoons they include mIn miniature lature hoes for tilling fields pieces of melting pots for metal and bones of animals and birds which no lonser inhabit the yamal peninsula on which ob dorsk stands the numerous remains found shows that the peninsula which Is within the arctic circle was one densely populated |