I’ve learned that basket weaving was a craft perfected by non Neanderthal types so it goes to reason that unbraided hair was Neanderthal fashion. Probably dreadlocks.. gross
Basketweaving has been around at least 27,000 years. It’s not as complicated as, say, cribbage, so it probably didn’t take thousands of years to develop or perfect, seems not unlikely that weaving has been around much earlier than that.
http://discovermagazine.com/1996/jan/thebasketage619