Making a complete outfit of a parka, pants, gloves, and boots for one adult during the Younger Dryas period could require up to five hides and an estimated 105 hours of work.
Notes on verification
Confirmed against Osborn's peer-reviewed 2014 American Antiquity article, which cites Hall et al. 1994 and Issenman 2000 for the hide and labor-hour estimates. Figures match exactly. [tier=unverified indep_score=0.3 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable] [rescored 2026-09-15: curated origin-host map (PR #65); unclassified hosts no longer scored as aggregators]
Sources
- Sewing Saved Us from a "Cold Snap" 13 Thousand Years Ago (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263889884_Eye_of_the_Needle_Cold_Stress_Clothing_and_Sewing_Technology_During_the_Younger_Dryas_Cold_Event_in_North_America (corroboration)
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/abs/eye-of-the-needle-cold-stress-clothing-and-sewing-technology-during-the-younger-dryas-cold-event-in-north-america/7585D812F664EAE29DF9EEA9E5A473EA (corroboration)