Archaeology reveals that humans started wearing clothes some 170,000 years ago, very close to the second-to-last ice age. Even now, though, most modern humans wear clothes that are only barely ...

I met Kiya, a tall young girl looking younger than her actual age at one of the local markets embroidering traditional clothes at Shiromeda, Addis Ababa. She was quite busy carefully embroidering a ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Archaeology reveals that humans started wearing clothes some 170,000 years ...