"The Origins of Human Clothing: A Historical Perspective"

The question of when humans started wearing clothes is difficult to answer due to the lack of surviving clothing artifacts. Evidence from bones, lice evolution, and archaeological findings suggests that Homo heidelbergensis may have worn bear skins around 300,000 years ago, while anatomically modern humans likely began regularly wearing simple clothes around 170,000 years ago. However, different human groups may have started and stopped wearing clothes multiple times throughout history, as seen in the archaeological record of Aboriginal people in Tasmania.