We’ve known since the 1990s that people were weaving fabric back then, revealed by impressions in baked clay from the sites of Pavlov and Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic. This was some serious bling, representing years of accumulated work.Īnd – caveman stereotypes aside – stone age clothes weren’t just animal skins. People were already making finely worked bone needles 20,000 years ago, probably for embroidery as much as sewing animal skins, like the thousands of ivory beads and fox teeth that covered the bodies of a girl and a boy buried at Sunghir, Russia, around 28,000 years ago.
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Many TV reconstructions and book illustrations of stone age (Palaeolithic) people really don’t do them justice. So for Harriet, if you’re reading: there’s a whole lot we know about the invention of clothing. But I do think we should take every chance we get to pass on the incredible stuff that we’ve found out about our world thanks to science – including archaeology – and keep on showing girls that using their brains by asking big questions is, actually, absolutely fabulous. They like to be challenged and humour is a great way to do this. I’m not advocating force-feeding facts Vulcan-style when talking to young people – far from it. It’s this kind of response that can, in aggregate, have a negative impact on children: being mentally curious ends up as something deeply uncool and not relevant to modern life. Hadley knows today’s fashion world inside out and might not care much about pre-silk times, but I’ll bet that Harriet wanted to find out more than what the Flintstones wear.
So I was kind of disappointed that a girl asking a genuine question about archaeology ended up with the barest of facts, as well as being told, even if it was meant lightheartedly, that the grown-up answering her question would rather she pay attention to what she looks like. I’m proud to be involved with ScienceGrrl, which aims to show girls that science is for everyone by providing diverse role models, and TrowelBlazers, a new project that is all about bringing to the fore the achievements of pioneering women archaeologists, geologists and palaeontologists.
Hadley’s response was, as usual, entertainingly breezy, with some refreshing encouragement to Harriet to experiment in developing her own style but, like a fine chiffon, it was a little flimsy in substance. Saturday’s “Ask a grown up” section featured just that question, from eight-year old Harriet, with an answer by Hadley Freeman, fashionexpert and fantastic writer.
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It’s the kind of thing that archaeologists like me get put on the spot about when chatting to kids, and we love to have a crack at answering. ““Who invented clothes?” It’s one of those brilliant questions that children ask, before they learn that the big things we wonder about rarely have simple answers. Hadley Freeman’s answer to the question was chiffon-flimsy, so here’s the lab-coat response Theolduvaigorge: Who invented clothes? A Palaeolithic archaeologist answers
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