Ancient humans deliberately collected perforated shells in order to string them together as beads, according to a study published July 8, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Daniella Bar-Yosef ...

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The manufacture of rosaries (a string of beads and also known as Navagunawela in Sinhalese and Mala in Tamil) is a traditional cottage industry in several villages in Kataragama area and also in ...

Shell beads were unveiled Nov. 18 by archaeologists in Morocco, which they said are some of the oldest baubles in the world. Getty Images Even the earliest Homo sapiens adored their precious gemstones ...

Two of the most commonly accepted theories for the origin of money are the commodity theory and the chartalist theory. Both have drawbacks, but in recent years, the chartalist theory has gained much ...