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The Caveman?s New Clothes
*From what they wore to how they hunted: overturning the threadbare
reconstructions of Ice Age culture*
By Kate Wong

PARIS-Walking through the human evolution exhibit in the Musee de
l'Homme, two things stand out to Olga Soffer: males are depicted to the
exclusion of females, and they're wearing the wrong clothes. Only
someone who has never sewn before would conclude that this needle could
have pierced through hides, she declares, drawing my attention to a
delicate sliver of bone in one of the display cases. Rather, the
University of Illinois archaeologist asserts, it must have stitched a
far finer material-perhaps even something akin to the linen of her blue
pinstriped suit.

Such needles-some of which date back more than 25,000 years to the Upper
Paleolithic period-vaguely suggest that caveman couture extended beyond
the crude animal-skin ensembles envisioned by many of her colleagues.
Soffer's efforts are revealing just how sophisticated those first
fashionistas were. By scouring the archaeological record for evidence of
perishable technologies like weaving, she has uncovered clues to
formerly invisible activities of Ice Age men-and women-forcing a
reevaluation of the men-in-furshunting-megafauna motif that has long
dominated reconstructions of prehistoric lifeways. The fabric of their
lives, it appears, was much richer than previously thought.*...continued
at Scientific American Digital*