[Ansteorra-textiles] Beads??

[ED Reese]

Grin.

Only if you're documenting something created by the culture that lived in 
the Blombos caves 70,000 years ago.

HL Esther of Ennis Merth


At 03:41 PM 04/17/2004, you wrote:
>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
>
>
>
>The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost.  They are
>added to the ages of other women.  -- Diane de Poitiers (1499 - 1566)
>
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