Cookie Consent by Cookie Consent by TermsFeed
 
Bradshaw Foundation Archaeology News
Bradshaw Foundation Archaeology News
Bradshaw Foundation Archaeology News
Bradshaw Foundation - Latest News
Paleolithic jewellery discovered in Denisova cave
Wednesday 02 November 2016

An article by Tamara Zubchuk on siberiantimes.com - Paleolithic jewellery still eye-catching after 50,000 years - reports on jewellery beads made from ostrich eggs discovered in the Denisova cave in the Altai region of Siberia.

Beads discovered in Denisova cave

Jewellery beads made from ostrich eggs discovered in the Denisova cave. Image: Maksim Kozlikin

The beads, created some 2,000 generations ago, reveal sophisticated skills. Researchers, including Maksim Kozlikin, researcher at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Novosibirsk, are now questioning the origins of the ostrich eggshells, or where the beads were made. Perfectly drilled by a fine stone drill, they believe them to be between 45,000 and 50,000 years old.

Images: Vera Salnitskaya & Lucinda Backwell 

The beads, one centimetre in diameter with a hole inside slightly wider than a millimetre, may have been sewn into clothing, or formed part of a bracelet or necklace.

 
Article continues below
 

The beads may have been exported from Trans-Baikal or Mongolia with the beads manufactured at Denisova, or made elsewhere and delivered to the Altai Mountains perhaps in an exchange.

The beads were discovered in the Denisova Cave's 'lucky' eleventh layer. Excavations have been underway in the cave for three decades. In August researchers discovered a 50,000 year old needle made of bone.

Read the full article:
http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0789-paleolithic-jewellery-still-eye-catching-after-50000-years/

 

Comment
Follow the Bradshaw Foundation on social media for news & updates
Follow the Bradshaw Foundation
on social media for news & updates
Follow the Bradshaw Foundation on social media for news & updates
Follow the Bradshaw Foundation
on social media for news & updates
If you have enjoyed visiting this website
please consider adding a link © Bradshaw Foundation
 
 
ROCK ART NETWORK
Rock Art Network Bradshaw Foundation Getty Conservation Institute
ARCHAEOLOGY
Bradshaw Foundation Donate Friends
Support our work & become a
Friend of the Foundation
 
 
Bradshaw Foundation Facebook
 
Bradshaw Foundation YouTube
Bradshaw Foundation iShop Shop Store
Bradshaw Foundation iShop Shop Store
Bradshaw Foundation iShop Shop Store