November
22
/ 2021
Humans were adorning their persons to make fashion statements 142,000 to 150,000 ago, according to a new analysis of the sea snail shell jewelry beads found in Morocco’s Bizmoune Cave. Conducted by a team of anthropologists from Morocco’s National Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (INSAP) as well as the University of Arizona in the US and France’s LAMPEA research institute, the Bizmoune Cave shell bead research study, published in the journal Science Advances, stretches the use of jewelry by humans back by 10,000 to 20,000 years from that previously recorded. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"92030","attributes":{"alt":"Photos from the recent study showing the sea snail shell jewelry beads found in the Bizmoune Cave of Morocco. (ScienceAdvances)","class":"media-image","height":"369","style":"width: 610px; height: 369px;","typeof":"foaf:Image","width":"610"}}]] [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_original","fid":"92031","attributes":{"alt":"Photos from the recent study showing
