June 4, 2007
Oldest beads found?
The international team of archaeologists, led by Oxford University's Institute of Archaeology, have found shell beads believed to be 82,000 years old from a limestone cave in Morocco. . .Full article here.Similar beads have been found at sites in Algeria, Israel and South Africa which are thought to date back to around the same time or slightly after the finds from Taforalt.
Posted by David on June 4, 2007 11:54 AM
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Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Nick Barton, Marian Vanhaeren, Francesco d'Errico, Simon Collcutt, Tom Higham, Edward Hodge, Simon Parfitt, Edward Rhodes, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Chris Stringer, Elaine Turner, Steven Ward, Abdelkrim Moutmir, and Abdelhamid Stambouli
82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, published June 4, 2007, 10.1073/pnas.0703877104
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Posted by: Anon on June 5, 2007 7:45 AM
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