Ancient bling lifts lid on early east Asian craft

• Autores: Alice Klein
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3088, 2016, pág. 12
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • What tales jewelry can tell. Shell ornaments up to 42,000 years old, discovered in East Timor, are the oldest evidence yet that the first inhabitants of South-East Asia made such decorative items. The find also overturns old assumptions that these people were unsophisticated. The most ancient example of shell jewelry found in Morocco, is 82,000 years old. As humans migrated out of Africa, similar jewelry began to appear in the European archaeological record from about 50,000 years ago.