Friday, June 23, 2006

still more to drive ID and YEC followers crazy!

Shells may have been earliest jewelry
WASHINGTON - Ancient beads that may represent the oldest attempt by people at self-decoration have been identified from sites in Algeria and Israel.

The beads, made from shells with holes bored into them, date to around 100,000 years ago, some 25,000 years older than similar beads discovered two years ago in South Africa, researchers report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.


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