Beads of Antiquity

Taken from Creation Magazine Vo. 26 No. 4- Science, 16/4/2004, New Scientist, 24/4/2004

The oldest known jewellery Yet? Beads from South Africa made of snail shell have been dated to about 75,000 years ago - more than 30,000 years older than any previously discovered personal adornment.

The find is a surprise for many archaeologist, who had not expected evidence of such early cultural complexity and modern human behaviour. It shows the people who made the beads had well-developed language with a grammatical structure. 'They must have had a way of describing the symbolic message that the beads represent,' said one researcher.

Other beads, made of ostrich shell, have been found in east Africa and researchers have provisionally ascribed an age ranging from 45,000 up to 110,000 years old. This, too, is confronting to many archaeologists who had not expected such evidence of creativity in early man.

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