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Description: As an archaeologist, the author always wants to know how something was done in the past. How was that stone knife made? How was that pot fired? How was that woolen yarn spun? And that’s the focus of this article, how woolen yarn was historically created. The article delves into Navajo history and yarn/tools made in Egypt and the Sudan and includes experimental archaeologists and textile researchers studying early fiber preparation tools and their use by traditional handspinners. This research is helping us tease out what that technology looked like in antiquity.