The Origins of Clothing
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Clothing has been essential for human evolution. From protection against changing climate, through to the driving force behind technological innovation in the production of fabrics and agriculture.
In this episode, Tristan with the help of Ian Gilligan, delves deep into our prehistory to uncover why and how our human ancestors may have begun to cover up, and how climate change, from the Pleistocene to the last ice age, may have also influenced this.
Ian Gilligan is a prehistorian at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Climate, Clothing and Agriculture in Prehistory; Linking Evidence Causes and Effects
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Engines on History Hit. |
| 0:13.5 | I'm Tristan Hughes, your host and in today's podcast where we're doing another huge topic |
| 0:18.1 | today, another origins topic because we are going back to the origins of clothing. |
| 0:24.2 | Yes, that thing that we're all likely wearing right now. |
| 0:28.0 | Some of you may not be wearing clothes, you're listening to this podcast. |
| 0:30.9 | That's up to you. |
| 0:32.1 | No shame. |
| 0:33.1 | No shame whatsoever. |
| 0:34.4 | Anyways, moving on. |
| 0:35.4 | Joining me to date talk all about the origins of clothing. |
| 0:38.2 | I was delighted to get on the podcast, Dr. Ian Gilligan from the University of Sydney. |
| 0:43.6 | Ian dialed in. |
| 0:45.1 | He's been doing a lot of work around the origins of clothing over the past few years. |
| 0:48.9 | He's even written a book all about clothing and its emergence in prehistory, the reasons. |
| 0:54.3 | Why? |
| 0:55.3 | It was a great chat. |
| 0:56.3 | We go across the globe from Tasmania to Ice Age Europe. |
| 1:00.9 | So that further ado, to talk all about the origins of clothing, here's Ian. |
| 1:05.9 | Ian, thank you so much for taking the time to come on the podcast today. |
| 1:12.4 | That my pleasure, Tristan. |
| 1:14.2 | Now, this is a fascinating topic. |
| 1:16.2 | I love doing origins elves because it's so interesting looking at where things come |
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