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.
Sources
- Sewing Saved Us from a "Cold Snap" 13 Thousand Years Ago (daily.jstor.org)
- 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 (researchgate.net)
- 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 (cambridge.org)
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