DID HUMANS BEGIN SPORTING hats 35,000 years ago? The Last Ice Age certainly provided the perfect storm: our brains expanded, we evolved social strategies such as bonding over fab threads, and it was seriously bloody cold.
Our hankering after headwear is certainly ancient. The 30,000-year-ish Venus of Willendorf may be sporting a woven headpiece. Bronze Age “Ötzi,” who froze in the Alps around 3250BC, is clad in a bearskin cap; Tollund Man, offed circa 400BC, a
