Tool markings found on the fossilized bones of a 300,000-year-old prehistoric cave bear seem to indicate that humans in Europe skinned the animals, a new study found.

Fur, leather and other organic clothing materials are highly perishable over time, and no actual prehistoric clothing was found at the cave.

Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered some of the earliest evidence of the use of clothing, with newly discovered cut marks on a cave bear paw suggesting the prehistoric animals were skinned ...

(CN) — New research shows that animal bones found in a Moroccan cave were tools used by ancient humans and were likely used in the making of clothing. Researchers were originally examining bones from ...

More than 6,000 years ago, two sisters lived, worked, and possibly died in one of Europe’s earliest known mining communities. Now, thanks to a remarkable fusion of archaeology, genetics, and forensic ...

Prehistoric Tailoring? 13,000-Year-Old Bone Needles Show How Ice Age Humans Stitched Winter Clothing Ice Age humans in what is now Wyoming used bones from hares, bobcats, and mountain lions to ...

This 39,600-Year-Old Bone May Have Been Used by Prehistoric Tailors New research suggests early Homo sapiens punched holes in leather hides to create seams for clothing ...

Direct evidence of prehistoric clothing is hard to find, but archaeologists in Germany discovered cut marks on a cave bear paw that suggest the animals were skinned for their fur.

Ancient Homo sapiens may have benefited from sunscreen, tailored clothes and the use of caves during the shifting of the magnetic North Pole over Europe about 41,000 years ago, new University of ...

How can we figure out when we first started wearing clothes? Of course, the ancient Egyptians were probably not the first people to ever wear clothing, but we haven’t found any clothes older ...

Casts of the ancient chewing gum pieces, which were found in Sweden and date to between 9,540 and 9,890 years ago. Verner Alexandersen Scientists are learning about the oral health and diets of ...

Fur, leather and other organic clothing materials are highly perishable over time, and no actual prehistoric clothing was found at the cave. The tools were made during a period when the cave was ...