My name is Kaia Carr-Meehan. I am a MA student in the department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University, under the supervision of Dr. Mark Collard in the Laboratory of Human Evolution Studies. I come from Vancouver Island, BC. My interests outside of academia are in sewing, bushcraft, and ecology, but archaeology is my passion and I am very grateful to be able to work in this field as a graduate student and hopefully beyond. My research is on Palaeolithic clothing and eyed bone needle development using microwear analysis, micro CT scanning, and experimental archaeology. Through the use of comparative analysis and experimental replication, my research will produce a typology through which to identify eyed bone needles from a functional perspective. The research will help to better fill the gap in the current knowledge around our understanding of perishable activities–those which do not preserve over time such as clothing, which includes hide working, sewing, beading, and potentially weaving and fibre processing. By studying eyed needles as a proxy for the perishables these tools were used on, my research will help to shed light on one of the most important aspects of material culture which has not preserved: clothing. My sample for this work comes from Cova Gran de Santa Linya, NE Spain, where I will be studying eyed needles on a site-level scale, comparing them to known needles from the region and period, studying them for wear, and producing replicative experiments to understand their function regarding clothing and textiles.