While fashion magazines and social media strongly influence how people dress today, there were literally fashion police in ...

Neanderthal garb may have been simpler than museums like to imagine Early modern humans dressed for ice age success – Neanderthals, not so much. An analysis of animal remains at prehistoric ...

Studies of modern hunter-gatherers also suggest that ‘ambush’ hunting practices are impaired by poor clothing because it is too chilly to lie in wait for long periods of time until prey arrives.

The collections highlighted below are a small part of our medieval and early modern collections. These items and many more can be located through Library Search. Monastic and medieval digital ...

DNA analysis of teeth and other fossilized remains from five caves in China has suggested that it was unlikely early modern humans were in China as early as 100,000 years ago.

Fashion Beauty Health & Fitness Home ... DNA analysis of present-day human populations has supported the hypothesis that early modern humans left Africa around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, ...

This fear of swallowing pins was likely influenced by their widespread nature in early modern society. Pins were used to hold together clothing, style hair, organise documents and, of course, for ...

Our undergraduate certificate in medieval and early modern studies allows students to cross boundaries of period, nation, language and discipline while gaining insight on the period from circa 400 to ...