Archaeologists and other scientists are beginning to unravel the story
of our most intimate technology: clothing. They’re learning when and why
our ancestors first started to wear clothes, and how their adoption was
crucial to the evolutionary success of our ancestors when they faced
climate change on a massive scale during the Pleistocene ice ages. These
investigations have revealed a new twist to the story, assigning a much
more prominent role to clothing than previously imagined. After the last
ice age, global warming prompted people in many areas to change their
clothes, from animal hides to textiles. This change in clothing
material, I suspect, could be what triggered one of the greatest changes
in the life of humanity. Not food but clothing lead to the agricultural
revolution.
https://aeon.co/essays/how-clothing-and-climate-change-kickstarted-agriculture
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