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CroMagnon beads

March 17, 2010
Part of an ancient necklace, these 30,000-year-old shells from Cro-Magnon, France  represent some of the earliest evidence of humans wearing jewelry. Some shells have traces of ocher, a clue they were colored with pigment.
 
Photo Credit: Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution
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