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- Archaeologists digging in the Bizmoune Cave in southwest Morocco found the oldest set of jewelry known to man. Science Advances reported that excavators discovered 33 shell beads dated between 142,000 and 150,000 years old.
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Sep 27, 2021 · Believed to be the world's oldest jewelry, the perforated shells date to about 142,000 years ago. A. Bouzouggar / INSAP. From ancient beads to modern bling, jewelry has allowed humans to make...
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Nov 24, 2021 · Archaeologist Steven L. Kuhn and his team say the shell beads are the earliest known evidence of a widespread form of non-verbal human communication—that is, using jewelry to relay things...
- Rachel Cormack
Nov 26, 2021 · Archaeologists digging in the Bizmoune Cave in southwest Morocco found the oldest set of jewelry known to man. Science Advances reported that excavators discovered 33 shell beads dated...
- Samantha Ibrahim
Nov 19, 2021 · In a cave in the western Morocco desert, archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest jewelry: a set of shell beads dated from 142,000 and 150,000 years ago.
Nov 22, 2021 · Archaeologists working in the Bizmoune Cave in southwest Morocco published a surprising finding in Science Advances last week: they had discovered what is believed to be the oldest jewelry in the...
Sep 23, 2021 · Scientists have just published a study on 33 Aterian snail shell beads from a cave dig in Morocco, which are now considered to be the world’s oldest jewelry. Human beings have been wearing necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and other forms of jewelry for a long time.
Nov 24, 2021 · In a cave in the western Morocco desert, archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest jewelry: a set of shell beads dated from 142,000 and 150,000 years ago. Made from half-inch-long sea snail shells, the 33 beads turned up during excavations conducted between 2014 and 2018 near the mouth of Bizmoune Cave, about 10 miles inland from the ...