what did cavemen wear?

Question

what type of clothing did they wear?

Answer 1

Dockers and Polo Shirts.

At least in the Geico Commercials

If you mean the original cave men, it depended on climate. In Africa, they worn basically nothing.

Colder climate worn animal skins.

Answer 2

Caveman Clothing was made for guys like me. Tough, sturdy, well designed clothes. Recently they've branched off into slacks, boxers, golf shirts, sweatshirts, etc., but I've found that all they need is a half dozen or so of their Embroidered T-Shirts Their shirts were incredibly tough: triple stitched and made of thick, 100% cotton. In the two years that I've been wearing these regularly I've yet to rip or wear through one: other T-Shirts I bought at the same time have disintegrated under much less wear. They're also comfortable: wide necks and sleeves that hang well from a neandertal frame.

Answer 3

I suppose that by cavemen you meant something like Neanderthals, or some such, and the answer would be animal skins,leaves, and probably grass. Seemingly, they were pretty good at tanning hides, and used those hides for all sorts of things, including clothing and shelter. I quote from my source:
"According to archaeologists and anthropologists, the earliest clothing probably consisted of fur, leather, leaves or grass, draped, wrapped or tied about the body for protection from the elements. Knowledge of such clothing remains inferential, since clothing materials deteriorate quickly compared to stone, bone, shell and metal artifacts. Archeologists have identified very early sewing needles of bone and ivory from about 30,000 BC, found near Kostenki, Russia, in 1988."

Answer 4

The first archeological signs of clothes appear in Paleolithic (“The Old Stone Age”: 2,000,000 to 10,000 years ago) :

"Material culture: Eyed bone needles suggest stitched clothing."

"European sites: Venus Figurines occasionally found with lines suggesting belts, and aprons covering the crotch on the figurines. This may be the first indication of (a) weaving and (b) clothing in the Upper Paleolithic."

"Russia, 25, 000 years ago. Siberian Archaeologists found. two children buried on a mat of over 6,000 hand-made beads of shell and other materials."

"Paleolithic Era" : http://radar.ngcsu.edu/~jtwynn/paleolithic.htm

"The third technological shift represents the development of shelter and clothing. Most clothing is made out of perishable materials like leather and cloth, which readily decay in the ground after only short periods of time. Modern scientists can only postulate the existence of clothing in the Paleolithic Age from the existence of needles and other tools for sewing and preparing hides. Archaeologists find one possible sign of clothing in the Paleolithic era, though: in some very ancient grave sites, a thin layer or halo of colored earth surrounds the skeleton. Most scholars believe this red ocher reside to be the remnants of paint smeared on the body. However, some believe this colored earth to be the remains at burial."

"Ancient History/Paleolithic Age : Clothing" : http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ancient_History/Paleolithic_Age#Clothing

"Cro-Magnons dominated Ice Age Europe from at least 40,000 years ago. Remnants remain of their high culture including animal skin clothing and moccasins tailored with bone needles, highly efficient flint blades, and homes made from branches and, in the Ukraine, from mammoth bones."

"1. Plants as clothing. The most remarkable artifacts of human-plant interaction concerns the use of plants as clothing which demonstrates the ability to weave twisted plant fibers into cloth as well as rope, nets, and baskets. These can be shown in early sculpted hand-sized representations of females bodies, sculpted 20,000-27,000 years ago. These sculptures, referred to as "Venuses" typically emphasize voluptuousness, suggesting a keen interest in woman痴 fertility. Their clothing includes string skirts, elaborate caps, and halters (Fig. 2-7). The voluptuous figures and the clothing suggest a very modern interest in adornment and sexuality. Thus, long before people settled into towns, domesticated plants or animals, or developed an agriculture, they clearly gathered special plants, probably nettles, extracted fibers, and manufactured useful articles."

"Early Humans and the Prehistoric Record: Human-Plant Interaction", Jules Janick, Purdue University, 2002 : http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/history/lecture02/lec2l.html

"While Ice Age peoples might often be thought of as living in rock shelters and caves, where most archaeological evidence has been found, they also lived in open spaces, in different kinds of shelters. They moved from place to place in order to hunt for and gather the food they needed, although they did not aimlessly wander – they often returned to the same places from year to year. Although no actual clothing survives, archaeologists have found bone needles that indicate that they sewed clothes, probably made from animal skins, using animal sinew (tendons) as a “thread”. The tools that were used for hunting, preparing food, preparing animal skins and various other tasks were made of stone."

"Life in the Palaeolithic 1 – Daily Life", Erika Petersen, Archaeological Research Facility, UC-Berkeley : http://www.mactia.berkeley.edu/aop/modules/palaeo1_Webready.htm

Answer 5

Most probably didn't wear anything because they had fur and because they had no socially inspired inhibitions about nudity.

Answer 6

They probably wore fur to keep themselves warm.

Answer 7

Cavemen, like evolution, never existed my friend. Its all one big myth.

Answer 8

animal skins like buffallo or woolly mammoth

Answer 9

There birthday suit

Answer 10

animal fur or skin from dead animals