[remarkEon]

>because we can live in the toundra today

No we can't. Have you been the tundra? You can't survive there on your own without technology. These people could.

[defrost]

Nope, they couldn't, they also required tech.

  Archaeologists find blade tools in the Caucasus from 300,000 years ago, and blades and awls were made in Southern Africa during a very cold phase 75,000 years ago.

  Northern China had blade tools from 40,000 years ago, bone awls from 35,000 years ago and eyed needles from 30,000 years ago.

  In Europe, eyed needles accompanied Homo sapiens toward the coldest part of the last glacial cycle, the last glacial maximum, around 22,000 years ago.

~ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-did-cloth...

~ https://phys.org/news/2026-03-ancient-needles-awls-survival-...