News tagged with shell beads
For UCLA expert on Chumash Indians, roughly hewn beads are child's play
(PhysOrg.com) -- As the world's leading authority on beads manufactured from shells by California's Chumash Indians, UCLA archaeologist Jeanne Arnold was stumped by a series of anomalous artifacts excavated ...
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May 09, 2011 |
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Archaeological study of ostrich eggshell beads collected from SDG site
Ostrich eggshell (OES) beads from SDG site reflect primordial art and a kind of symbolic behavior of modern humans. Two different manufacturing pathways are usually used in the manufacture of OES beads in Upper Paleolithic. ...
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Dec 07, 2009 |
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Tiny ancient shells point to earliest fashion trend
Shell beads newly unearthed from four sites in Morocco confirm early humans were consistently wearing and potentially trading symbolic jewellery as early as 80,000 years ago. These beads add significantly to similar finds ...
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Aug 27, 2009 |
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'The world's oldest manufactured beads' are older than previously thought
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of archaeologists has uncovered some of the world’s earliest shell ornaments in a limestone cave in Eastern Morocco. The researchers have found 47 examples of Nassarius marine shells, ...
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May 05, 2009 |
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Homo sapiens arrived in Europe earlier than previously believed
Members of our species (Homo sapiens) arrived in Europe several millennia earlier than previously thought. At this conclusion a team of researchers, led by the Department of Anthropology, University of Vie ...
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Nov 02, 2011 |
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Building a smarter ape?
Silly as the movie gets, "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" explores big questions about human evolution.
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Strength in numbers
New research sheds light on why, after 300,000 years of domination, European Neanderthals abruptly disappeared. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have discovered that modern humans coming from Africa swarmed the ...
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Jul 28, 2011 |
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Countering contamination for Mars spacesuits
To search for life on Mars, future astronauts would naturally want to step outside their living habitat for a walk. But the spacesuits keeping them alive might also carry Earth microbes or ingredients of life ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 16, 2011 |
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A quantum pen for single atoms
(PhysOrg.com) -- German physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics succeeded in manipulating atoms individually in a lattice of light and in arranging them in arbitrary patterns. These results ...
Mar 23, 2011 |
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Magnetic chameleons: New displays that change color under the influence of magnets
Chinese researchers have created microscopic capsules that change color when a magnetic field is applied. When the capsules are collected into an array, magnetic fields can be used to create colored patterns ...
Mar 16, 2011 |
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Scientists are first to 'unlock' the mystery of creating cultured pearls from the queen conch
For more than 25 years, all attempts at culturing pearls from the queen conch (Strombus gigas) have been unsuccessful—until now. For the first time, novel and proprietary seeding techniques to produce beaded ...
Nov 04, 2009 |
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New polymer that changes color instantly in response to external magnetic field (w/Video)
A research team led by a chemist at the University of California, Riverside has fabricated microscopic polymer beads that change color instantly and reversibly when external magnetic fields acting upon the microspheres change ...
Jun 16, 2009 |
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High population density triggers cultural explosions
Increasing population density, rather than boosts in human brain power, appears to have catalysed the emergence of modern human behaviour, according to a new study by UCL (University College London) scientists published in ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Superglue from the sea: Synthetic sea worm glue may mend shattered knee, face bones
Sandcastle worms live in intertidal surf, building sturdy tube-shaped homes from bits of sand and shell and their own natural glue. University of Utah bioengineers have made a synthetic version ...
Nov 25, 2008 |
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