Early jewellery, a set of shell beads estimated to be 75 000 years old, is discovered in South Africa
… discovery is believed to be the oldest known jewellery, as the beads are more than 30,000 years older than any other … holes, suggesting that they had been strung together as a necklace. The discovery of Stone Age beads in South … the theory that traits associated with modern people, such as using symbolic items, developed earlier, rather than …