I put the beads in a drawer, far more excited about ... above a windowsill set with candles and icons? The hands to hold them and a job that needs to be done.

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Archaeologists have discovered that 100,000-year-old shells found in Israel and Algeria were decorative beads. This suggests that modern human forms of behaviour, such as language, developed ...

Stone Age beads revealed by archaeologists on Wednesday could be the strongest evidence yet that humans developed sophisticated symbolic thought much earlier than once thought. The ostrich egg ...