Alice Roberts: How we know what ancient humans wore 👕🪡 Clothing is perishable and the oldest remains are only around 10,000 years old. But, as archaeologist Alice Roberts explains, we can follow trends back in time in other ways. Archaeological clues can reveal the origins of both simple capes and complex tailoring to be remarkably ancient. Most surprising, though, is research into the technology most strongly associated with clothing, needles. This is now revealing how our ancestors transform

Digging for Britain starts TONIGHT! Join me and a huge team of archaeologists right across the UK & NI, unearthing anew bounty of insights, revelations and astonishing finds… 9pm @BBCFour #D4B8 | Alice Roberts

Coming soon, to a bookshop near you… I’ve LOVED working on this book - it’s been such a great team effort, with loads of friends & colleagues contributing, under the incredible guidance of DK editors Angeles Gavira and Rob Houston. I’ve never seen a book on HUMANS this ambitious - I wanted it to be wide-ranging and cross-disciplinary, genre-defying. I wanted anatomy, physiology, evolution, archaeology, anthropology in one big book. And I think we’ve done it! https://dk.com/products/9780241682746

Anatomy. If you want to learn it, I'm here to teach it. #LockdownAnatomy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uacprIjyL2c&list=PL4UJ51L9AD1XAbkpGkcydgyVgU9pS__DQ | Alice Roberts