Men have been shaving since the Stone Age.

World History

L ong before the age of electric and five-blade razors, men still felt compelled to shave. The practice is so old, in fact, that it dates back to the Stone Age, though our ancestors' methods were, unsurprisingly, primitive. (The first people brave enough to maintain their facial hair did so with seashells that essentially functioned as tweezers.) Indeed, there is evidence that men shaved as many as 100,000 years ago — and not for the reasons you might think.

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By the Numbers

Length of the world's longest beard

8'3"

Weight (in tons) of woolly mammoths

4-6

Did you know?

The Stone Age was the longest period in human history.

It isn't even close, either, as the Stone Age began an estimated 2.6 million years ago and ended about 5,000 years ago. The period has been described as the first 99% of human history. Homo sapiens weren't the only hominids around during this era, as the now-extinct Neanderthals and Denisovans were still alive at the time as well. Divided into three periods — Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic — the Stone Age came to an end when humans first started working with metal and began making tools and weapons out of bronze. It was followed by the Bronze Age and then the Iron Age.

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