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Oldest Beads Hint at Early Art, Science Now
 









Excerpts: (...) humans were well on their way to complex, symbolic thinking by
75,000 years ago--long before the "creative explosion" of painting and jewelry
began 40,000 years ago in Europe.(...)
"(...) trail of representational objects that is increasingly older as we move
back [from Europe] into Africa." (...) record of earlier artistic objects from
Africa as evidence that modern behavioral traits, such as the use of external
symbols, developed gradually over a couple of hundred thousand years, not
suddenly after our ancestors emerged from Africa, (...).
Source: Oldest Beads Hint at Early Art[     
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2004/415/3?etoc  ], Constance
Holden, Science Now, 04/04/15

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