普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语选修8 Unit 5 Reading

　　S3: What wild animals were there all that time ago?

　　A: Well, we've been finding the bones of tigers and bears in the caves, and we think these were their most dangerous enemies. Now what do you think this tells us about the life of these early people? (shows picture of a sewing needle)

　　S2.: Gosh! That's a needle. Goodness, does that mean they repaired things?

　　A: What else do you think it might have been used for?

　　S4: Let me look at it. It's at most three centimetres long. Ah yes, it seems to be made of bone. I wonder how they made the hole for the ...

　　S2: (interrupting) Do you mean that they made their own clothes? Where did they get the material?

　　A: They didn't have material like we have today. Can you guess what they used?

　　Sl: Wow! Did they wear clothes made entirely of animal skins? How did they prepare them? I'm sure they were quite heavy to cut and sew together.

　　A: Our evidence suggests that they did wear clothes made from animal skins. We continue discovering tools that were sharpeners for other tools. It seems that they used the sharpened stone tools to cut up animals and remove their skin. Then smaller scrapers were probably used to remove the fat and meat from the skin. After that they would rub an ample amount of salt onto the skin to make it soft. Finally, they would cut it and sew the pieces together. Quite a difficult and messy task! Now look at this. (shows a necklace)

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