Bone tools, beads unearthed in Direkli Cave© 2025 Hürriyet Daily News
Posted on 11/12/2025 8:20:19 AM PST by SunkenCiv
Hürriyet Daily News reports that two bone awls and four beads dated to 13,000 years ago have been discovered in Direkli Cave in south-central Turkey. Cevdet Merih Erek of Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University said that differences between the awls suggests that one may have been used to pierce stone beads, while the other is thought to have been used in working leather or making clothing. The beads are thought to have been placed in burials to adorn the dead, he added. "The differentiation in this tool industry and the use of various materials in different fields point to a certain level of industrial development during that period," Erek concluded. To read about a Roman mosaic recently unearthed in eastern Turkey, go to "A Day at the Hunt."
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Bone tools, beads unearthed in Direkli Cave© 2025 Hürriyet Daily News
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The Garden Of Beadin’?...................
No of course not.
Since the beginning of species time, the female gender has been vain. Beads were and are still thought necessary to enhance the beauty necessary to attract sex.
Beads still exist to satisfy vanity.
When did they stop beadin’ their wives?
Some beads are built,not for vanity, but for pleasure.
Beads, Awls & Saints
An old archeologist, Throstle,
Discovered a marvelous fossil.
He could tell from its bend
And the knob on the end
‘Twas the peter of Paul the apostle.
(Oh no, it’s him again!)
It’s not every day one sees an archaeology limerick!
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