Stone Age humans wore tailored clothes.
Experts have revealed that fashion started to emerge at the end of the last Ice Age as temperatures became too cold for traditional decorative body painting.
Hunter-gatherers started sewing to tailor and layer items of clothing and customised their outfits with things like beads, according to findings based on the discoveries of 40,000-year-old eyed bone needles in Siberia.
Dr. Ian Gilligan, an archaeologist at the University of Sydney, said: “We know clothing up until the last glacial cycle was only used on an ad hoc basis.
“Eyed needles document a transition in the function of clothing from utilitarian to social purposes.”
He continued: “The appearance of eyed needles signals the use of clothing as decoration.
“Eyed needles would have been especially useful for the very fine sewing required to decorate clothing.”
