Aterian

Human beings have been wearing necklaces, bracelets earrings, and other forms of jewelry for a long time. But when you are next looking at a cross bracelet in an antique store and wondering what stories it could tell, think of this. A cache of prehistoric Aterian sea snail shell beads discovered at a cave in western Morocco pushed the origin of wearing jewelry back farther than archaeologists and anthropologists ever expected. These seashell beads were determined to be somewhere between 142,000 and 150,000 years old, making them the oldest jewelry found anywhere in the world up to this time. The existence of these almost unimaginably ancient beads that were used to make the world’s oldest jewelry was announced to the