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.

Like early modern humans, they crafted stone tools and harnessed fire to cook complex meals. They concocted medicines to treat the injured and sick, and may have even gone to great lengths to bury ...

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 ...