For instance, the shell beads occur in the Still Bay layers, but are absent from the Howiesons Poort ones, in Sibudu and elsewhere.
32.
The 41 pea-size shell beads were uncovered in clusters arranged by similar sizes and shades, each cluster probably representing a single piece of jewelry.
33.
What these latter shell beads tell us is that there was indeed a high level of technique around the time that these shell beads were being made.
34.
What these latter shell beads tell us is that there was indeed a high level of technique around the time that these shell beads were being made.
35.
They didn't have bone needles or shell beads, they didn't paint or play music, and their burials were no-nonsense affairs.
36.
Uncovered alongside fragmented animal bone tools was the mummified body of an infant, wrapped in animal skin and wearing a necklace made of ostrich egg shell beads.
37.
Studies on the method of cutting, use, location and whether these were taken whole or broken apart were used as characteristics to define these shell beads.
38.
Many of them wore collars of shell beads that were carved to look like human teeth, and they were buried with small treasures of obsidian blades and arrows.
39.
A more difficult procedure is the grafting of a piece of oyster mantle into the gonad of an adult specimen together with the insertion of a shell bead nucleus.
40.
Items of personal adornment ( pierced and ochred Nassarius shell beads ) are known from at least one Aterian site, with an age of 82, 000 years.
