[asa] Fwd: Adornment history

Hi All,
 
Anyone seen this article and able to comment on its validity?
 
Best Regards,
Charles
 
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"To a naturalist nothing is indifferent;
the humble moss that creeps upon the stone
is equally interesting as the lofty pine which so beautifully adorns the valley or the mountain:
but to a naturalist who is reading in the face of the rocks the annals of a former world,
the mossy covering which obstructs his view,
and renders indistinguishable the different species of stone,
is no less than a serious subject of regret."
          - James Hutton
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Old Shells Suggest Early Human Adornment
from the New York Times (Registration Required)

Archaeologists say they have found evidence that in one respect people were
behaving like thoroughly modern humans as early as 100,000 years ago: they
were apparently decorating themselves with a kind of status-defining jewelry
- the earliest known shell necklaces.

If this interpretation is correct, it means that human self-adornment,
considered a manifestation of symbolic thinking, was practiced at least
25,000 years earlier than previously thought.

An international team of archaeologists, writing today in the journal
Science, reported its analysis of small shells with distinctive perforations
that appeared to have been strung together as ornamental beads. Chemical
study showed that the two shells from the Skhul rock shelter in Israel were
more than 100,000 years old, and the single shell from Oued Djebbana, in
Algeria, was about 90,000 years old.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/science/23shell.html

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Received on Fri Jun 23 17:15:17 2006