News tagged with shell ornaments

For UCLA expert on Chumash Indians, roughly hewn beads are child's play

(PhysOrg.com) -- As the world's leading authority on beads manufactured from shells by California's Chumash Indians, UCLA archaeologist Jeanne Arnold was stumped by a series of anomalous artifacts excavated ...

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May 09, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

'The world's oldest manufactured beads' are older than previously thought

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of archaeologists has uncovered some of the world’s earliest shell ornaments in a limestone cave in Eastern Morocco. The researchers have found 47 examples of Nassarius marine shells, ...

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May 05, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (11) | 0