Title:
World’s 1st necklace? Prehistoric painted shells, once on twine, found in Israel
Author:
Amanda Borschel-Dan
Published:
The Times of Israel, 9 July 2020
https://www.timesofisrael.com/worlds-1st-necklace-prehistoric-painted-shells-once-on-twine-found-in-israel/
From the article:
Experiments on 160,000-year-old clam shell fossils in northern caves indicate they are earliest examples of shell beads strung for display on the human body, Israeli scientists say.
Sometime around 160,000 to 120,000 years ago, early man began to string together painted shells and display them, according to a new international, interdisciplinary study published in the open-sourced PLOS One journal this week.