82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior.
The first appearance of explicitly symbolic objects in the archaeological record marks a fundamental stage in the emergence of modern social behavior in Homo. Ornaments such as shell beads represent some of the earliest objects of this kind. We report on examples of perforated Nassarius gibbosulus s...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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