Climate change, genetics or human choice: why were the shells of mankind’s earliest ornament larger in the Pleistocene than in the Holocene?
The southern African tick shell, Nassarius kraussianus (Dunker, 1846), has been identified as being the earliest known ornamental object used by human beings. Shell beads dated from ~75,000 years ago (Pleistocene era) were found in a cave located on South Africa's south coast. Beads made from N...
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| Format: | Others |
| Language: | English |
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2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000614 |