Comments on: More On Discovery Of The Oldest Adornments In The World http://anthropology.net/2007/06/18/more-on-discovery-of-the-oldest-adornments-in-the-world/ Beyond bones & stones Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: onyx http://anthropology.net/2007/06/18/more-on-discovery-of-the-oldest-adornments-in-the-world/#comment-15192 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:45:27 +0000 http://anthropology.net/2007/06/18/more-on-discovery-of-the-oldest-adornments-in-the-world/#comment-15192 yes. now i don’t at all doubt that a sense of beauty is older then that, but i have a question, what does the red ochre do in this story? i cant imagine someone would colour shell beads with sth (red ochre) that is essentially dust on a dry surface. it would not stick for long certainly not in wear. so there must be another explanation. the instances of red ochre use i know of all have a do with burials and other symbolic arangements,(body) paints eg. so either i think the beads were initially part of a burial, or they ended up recently coloured where they did. and in some cases red ochre itself has been found solely or in combination suggesting an offering. since i don’t know anything more about the circumstances of the find, the one thing i do assume is they come from a relatively heavily disturbed context,(because the circumstance would otherways have been enthusiastically described) and much of the question that rises is , how and when was it thus disturbed.

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