When did humans begin wearing clothes?

by KiltsMcGee

This might not really count as history but it happened in the past so I assume it counts.

It's not like animals have an instinct to wear clothes and early human civilisation didn't really have social norms (I don't think).

Also, this may be a real long shot, but, if someone can explain why early humans started wearing clothes that would be awesome.

Thanks a bunch.

EvanRWT

I wrote a post on this topic a couple years ago in a r/AskScience thread here. There were some questions which I replied to here.

chocolatepot

You might want to try r/AskAnthropology, as this is really more a question of archaeology and prehistory.