[SunkenCiv]

Neanderthals were tanning animal skins more than 100,000 years ago. Photograph: Nikola Solic/Reuters

[muawiyah]

Neanderthal tools had handles. That’s exceedingly advanced thinking.

[reg45]

Clothes were invented by people in cold climates. That makes sense to me.

[martin_fierro]

[bunkerhill7]

The Cro-Magnon`s shopped at I.Magnin until I.Magnin became extinct in 1984.

I.Magnin traces can be found on clothes at the Maceys til now where most Cro-Magnons still shop since I.Magnin was conquered by the Macies.

There is no trace of where Neanderthals shopped for clothes since there is such a large GAP in their history.

It is rumored that the Neanderthal women shopped for sexy clothes [it didn`t help]near VICTORIA, Queensland, Australia, but its location is a long-forgotten SECRET.

[BykrBayb]

Neanderthals were tanning animal skins more than 100,000 years ago. Photograph: Nikola Solic/Reuters

Photographic evidence always makes it more convincing. ; / )

[afraidfortherepublic]

Well, I read the whole article. The author criticizes the authors of a Q & A column for not addressing the subject seriously, but the “post doctoral” she doesn’t either. I think a better answer to her question lies in the Bible narrative — Adam and Eve wore the first clothes.

She did offer some interesting insights, however.

[NELSON111]

Who invented cloths?

Adam and Eve.

[BipolarBob]

The caveman Ar-Mani.

[JoeProBono]

[The Sons of Liberty]

Who invented clothes? A Palaeolithic archaeologist answers

More importantly - Who invented the T-shirt?

[SamAdams76]

Men and women used to wear the same clothes. Then something happened to change all that. Does anybody know what that something was? Something to ponder on a cold, raining Memorial Day Saturday afternoon.

High heels. Why do women wear them? They seem so uncomfortable. But they sure look good in them and when they are wearing them, you know they are coming by way of that that click-clack sound. I do appreciate the warning so that I have the opportunity to correct my own appearance as they approach.

[ex-snook]

The first guy caught in a winter storm must be the guy who invented clothes.

[Revolting cat!]

Who invented clothes?

Is that a trick question? Because the answer is too easy: a nekkid man!

[Alas Babylon!]

This was answered a few years ago by studying lice. You see, apes only have one species of lice, but humans have two: The hair louse, and the body louse. The body louse cannot live in human head hair, and needs clothing to survive. Scientists think at one time these two different species were one, but split when humans started wearing clothing.

Study of lice DNA shows humans first wore clothes 170,000 years ago