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<DIV>Gerita,</DIV>
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<DIV>That is great. Thank you very much for passing it along. </DIV>
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<DIV>Annalies<BR> </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>From:</B></I> <A href="mailto:hpockets@verizon.net">hpockets@verizon.net</A>; <A href="mailto:ansteorra-textiles@ansteorra.org">Spinners, weavers, knitters and other Textile makers in Ansteorra</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Date:</B></I> Saturday, April 17, 2004 3:41:58 PM</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" <i><B>Subject:</B></I> [Ansteorra-textiles] Beads??</DIV></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>Yesterday's Dallas Morning News had an interesting article on page 24A.<BR><BR>The article is a digest of the most recent journal, Science. In it,<BR>beads have been found in Blombos cave on South Africa's Indian Ocean<BR>coast. The latest effort to date the beads, made from bored-out shells,<BR>is at 70,000 years. There are 41 of them. The shell beads show<BR>typical wear marks in the holes, evidently proving that they are<BR>authentic. They were found in the cave along with some carved ochre,<BR>further substantiating the believe that symbolic behavior predated<BR>mankind's exodus from Africa. <BR><BR>So, does this count as documentation for shell beads, hmmm?<BR><BR>Grinning, <BR>Gerita<BR><BR><BR><BR>The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are<BR>added to the ages of other women. -- Diane de Poitiers (1499 - 1566)<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Ansteorra-textiles mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Ansteorra-textiles@ansteorra.org">Ansteorra-textiles@ansteorra.org</A><BR><A href="http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/ansteorra-textiles">http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/ansteorra-textiles</A><BR>. </TD></TR>
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