Sentences with phrase «old shell bead»

This stunning exhibition of treasures from South Africa includes a 77,000 - year - old shell bead necklace from the Blombos cave in Western Cape, revealing that artistic practice began thousands of centuries before we ever imagined.

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* A South African cave yields 75,000 - year - old pieces of shell - bead jewelry, the earliest evidence of symbolic thinking by humans.

Deep inside the 650 - room Chaco Canyon compound in New Mexico lies the richest burial in the U.S. Southwest: the body of a 40 - year - old man, surrounded by rare shells; a conch trumpet; and more than 11,000 turquoise beads and pendants.

The ancient finds, referred to as shell beads by Abdeljalil Bouzouggar of the National Institute of Archaeological and Historical Sciences in Rabat, Morocco, and his coworkers, come from snails of the same genus as do 75,000 - year - old perforated shells previously discovered in South Africa.

A male about 40 years old was interred with a Tohil Plumbate jar (the San Juan jar) and two other ceramic vessels, a carved jade face, a tubular jade bead, two stone knives and a stone flake, a carved shell bead, four deer antlers, and an awl made from a deer bone, and a manatee bone.

What do you get when you mix everything from old shells, beads and buttons to toys, jewellery and anything else you could find lying around in charity shops, car boot sales and recycling centres?