Editing Neolithic (section)

=== Clothing ===
Most clothing appears to have been made of animal skins, as indicated by finds of large numbers of bone and antler pins that are ideal for fastening leather. [[woolen|Wool]] cloth and [[linen]] might have become available during the later Neolithic,<ref>{{Cite journal |url = https://www.academia.edu/203730 |title = Smooth and Cool, or Warm and Soft: Investigating the Properties of Cloth in Prehistory |last = Harris |first = Susanna|year = 2009 |website = North European Symposium for Archaeological Textiles X|access-date = 5 September 2013 |publisher = Academia.edu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.mitchellteachers.org/WorldHistory/MrMEarlyHumansProject/PDFs/PaleolithictoNeolithicDescriptions.pdf |title = Aspects of Life During the Neolithic Period |access-date = 5 September 2013 |publisher = Teachers' Curriculum Institute |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160505105137/http://www.mitchellteachers.org/WorldHistory/MrMEarlyHumansProject/PDFs/PaleolithictoNeolithicDescriptions.pdf |archive-date = 5 May 2016 }}</ref> as suggested by finds of perforated stones that (depending on size) may have served as [[Spindle (textiles)|spindle whorls]] or [[loom]] weights.<ref>{{cite journal|url = https://www.academia.edu/1587878|title = Pierced clay disks and Late Neolithic textile production|publisher = Academia.org|last = Gibbs|first = Kevin T.|access-date = 5 September 2013|year = 2006|website = Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Unraveling the Enigma of the Bi: The Spindle Whorl as the Model of the Ritual Disk |year=1993 |last=Green |first=Jean M |journal=Asian Perspectives |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |issue=1 |volume=32 |pages=105–24 |hdl=10125/17022 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title = The clay loom weight, in: Early Neolithic ritual activity, Bronze Age occupation and medieval activity at Pitlethie Road, Leuchars, Fife |year = 2007 |journal = Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal |last = Cook |first = M |volume = 13 |pages = 1–23}}</ref>