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History of Handmade Glass Beads

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Are handmade glass beads a fad, possibly to fall out of favor in a few years?
Evidence of our urge to decorate with beads has now been traced back 100,000 years ago to a finding of shells with perforations believed to be human-made in a cave in a mountainous region of South Africa. Chris Stringer, who [...]

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