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The Dawn of Fashion: How Eyed Needles Tailored the Evolution of Dress


From stone tools that prepared animal skins for humans to use as thermal insulation, to the advent of bone awls and eyed needles to create fitted and adorned garments, why did we start to dress to express ourselves and to impress others? Researchers explore the transformation of clothing from mer

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