What Did Cavewomen Really Wear Under Their Fur?

Forty thousand years ago, nobody owned thermal underwear, yet Ice Age people survived winters up to 25°F colder than today. Mira and Dex go looking for the real answer hiding under the fur: a 40,000-year-old eyed needle from Denisova Cave, a 30,000-year burial at Sunghir with over 10,000 ivory beads, and the complete, catalogued outfit of Ötzi the Iceman, down to his grass-stuffed shoes. Chapters: 0:00 Wind: 1, Mira: 0 0:15 No fleece, no thermals 1:02 Step 1: Four layers to survive 2:02 Step 2: Capes vs. tailors 3:10 Step 3: The 40,000-year-old needle 4:52 Step 4: 10,000 beads, one outfit 5:45 Step 5: Under the Iceman's coat 6:57 Step 6: Fur on bare skin? 8:40 Dex sews a shirt 9:43 It's a leather shirt 10:02 What did Dex hit? What do you think Dex just walked into in the dark? Tell us in the comments — subscribe so you don't miss what happens next (next time: the oldest leather shoe ever found, and why it was stuffed with grass). Science notes: the eyed needle from Denisova Cave, the ivory-bead burials at Sunghir, and Ötzi's fully catalogued clothing (South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, Bolzano) are real archaeological finds; the exact look of an Ice Age "under-layer" is an informed reconstruction, since textiles themselves rarely survive. Mira and Dex are fictional characters used to walk through the real science. The story is fiction — the science is real. #whatif #animation #iceage