82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior

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Bouzouggar, Abdeljalil
Barton, Nick
Vanhaeren, Marian
d'Errico, Francesco
Collcuttt, S
Higham, Thomas F. G.
Hodge, Edward
Parfitt, S
Rhodes, Edward
Schwenninger, J

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National Academy of Sciences (USA)

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The first appearance of explicitly symbolic objects in the archaeological record marks a fundamental stage in the emergence of modern social behavior in Homo. Ornaments such as shell beads represent some of the earliest objects of this kind. We report on

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PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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2037-12-31