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To: blam

Cool. I wonder what the point of little tiny rings was.

2 posted on 08/17/2005 4:41:36 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Officially around the bend, at least for now.)

To: Tax-chick

I would baselessly speculate that the rings were woven into cloth.

A ceremonial (or not) precursor to chain mail?

7 posted on 08/17/2005 5:03:25 PM PDT by El Sordo

To: Tax-chick

Good afternoon.
"Cool. I wonder what the point of little tiny rings was."

Decoration. Ears, noses, eyebrows, tongues, other places.

Michael Frazier

9 posted on 08/17/2005 5:05:14 PM PDT by brazzaville (no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)

To: Tax-chick

I wonder what the point of little tiny rings was.

Possibly they were threaded on something like a string or leather thong that rotted away.

12 posted on 08/17/2005 5:08:25 PM PDT by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)

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