[Ansteorra-textiles] Beads??

[Gerita/Carolle Cox]

Yesterday's Dallas Morning News had an interesting article on page 24A.

The article is a digest of the most recent journal, Science.  In it,
beads have been found in Blombos cave on South Africa's Indian Ocean
coast.  The latest effort to date the beads, made from bored-out shells,
is at 70,000 years.   There are 41 of them.  The shell beads show
typical wear marks in the holes, evidently proving that they are
authentic.  They were found in the cave along with some carved ochre,
further substantiating the believe that symbolic behavior predated
mankind's exodus from Africa.  

So, does this count as documentation for shell beads, hmmm?

Grinning, 
Gerita



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