The First Hair Tools: Stone, Flint, Shell and Bone
Discover the earliest materials prehistoric humans could use for hair care, from sharp flint and stone to shell and bone, and what archaeology can actually prove.

Discover the earliest materials prehistoric humans could use for hair care, from sharp flint and stone to shell and bone, and what archaeology can actually prove.

Thousands of years before scissors and metal razors, humans already possessed edges sharp enough to cut hair. Discover what archaeology can – and cannot – tell us about the first haircut.

Long before salons, scissors and professional hairdressers, humans were already managing and transforming their hair. Archaeology offers fascinating – but fragmentary – clues to the prehistoric origins of hair care.