300,000-year-old markings hint at a rare example of Stone Age clothing: huge cave-bear skins

Jan 6 2023 by Business Insider

 
An illustration represents Stone Age humans wearing bear skins. A new finding suggests humans skinned cave bears for clothing as early as 300,000 years ago.

Benoît Clarys; Insider

300,000-year-old cave markings in Germany suggest Stone Age humans were wearing clothes. Humans skinned huge cave bears to keep warm, per markings on bones analyzed by experts.  It's difficult to assess when humans started wearing clothing because furs don't survive that long.

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