Extravagant bead necklace from Neolithic child’s grave reassembled – The History Blog

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/67962

"An astonishing 2,500 beads — flat beads, cylindrical beads, disc beads, tubular shell beads — were ultimately unearthed. Most of them were made of sandstone, but there were also turquoise, shell and amber beads from Lebanon that are the oldest ever discovered."

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