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Zol
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Zol asked in Beauty & StyleHair · 2 years ago

Did Stone Age people cut their hair?

I guess not, it would be tough with flint tools!! So did their hair just grow long? If they did cut it how did they do it?

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  • 2 years ago
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    We don't have evidence of primitive people cutting their hair, but they did sometimes tie it back or braid it. If they had wanted to, it wouldn't have been hard--those flint tools skinned and butchered animals, so they certainly could cut hair.

    Nature gave humans long hair for a reason. It protected them from cold, sunburn, insect bites, etc. And it acted as a pillow when they slept. It's also possible their hair contained pheromones (sex lures), now only found in pubic hair.

  • 2 years ago

    Possible. Stones were very sharp to kill animals with and I often thought about did they shave or cut their hair?

  • JASON
    Lv 6
    2 years ago

    I've often wondered this.

  • 2 years ago

    No their barbers did.

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  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    Long before that they mastered the art of plucking their eyebrows if Raquel Welch in One Million Years BC was anything to go by. :)

    If they cut it at all it would be with a sharpened flint or bone. They were eminently capable of making cutting tools of flint or obsidian But I think the fashion was for long and matted.

  • Anonymous
    2 years ago

    only those in the iron age as the scissors were made of iron ha

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