June 18, 2007

More On Discovery Of The Oldest Adornments In The World

Previously on Anthropology.net, we saw the news from Morocco regarding the discovery of ochre-stained beads fashioned from 13 pierced shells of Nassarius gibbosulus, a coastal dwelling mollusc, which in this instance were collected from a beach some 40km/25 miles distant from the Cave of Pigeons in Taforalt – indicating that this particular resource was considered [...]