Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa

By C. Henshilwood, Francesco d'Errico, M. Vanhaeren, K. V. van Niekerk, Z. Jacobs. Science, 2004

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Recognizing Complex Cognition through Innovative Technology in Stone Age and Palaeolithic Sites (2013, background): “Perforated shells appear to have been manipulated and strung: many have convincing wear facets in their perforations, and some are ochrecovered or burned (for example, Bar-Yosef Mayer et al. 2009; Bouzouggar et al. 2007; d’Errico et al. 2008; 2009; Henshilwood et al. 2004; Vanhaeren et al. 2006).”
Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age. (2005, methodology): “4 ka based on measurements from both single aliquots and 4,800 individual quartz grains (Henshilwood et al., 2004).”
Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene (2007, background): “The LC-MSA Upper is a heavily cemented zone with three sub-units: (1) a lower hard sandy and silty layer containing reworked ashes that directly contacts and transitions into the richer anthropogenic deposits of the LC-MSA Middle; (2) a layer of shellfish stratified within an aeolian dune with a wei”
An Evolutionary Anthropological Perspective on Modern Human Origins (2015, background): “Beads are present in South Africa at ~70 ka (Henshilwood et al 2004), North Africa at ~80 ka (Bouzouggar et al 2007), and possibly the Levant with early modern humans at ~92 ka (Bar-Yosef Mayer et al 2009).”
The Social Brain and the Shape of the Palaeolithic (2011, background): “Perforated Nassarius shell beads are found in South and North Africa by 80 ka (Bouzouggar et al. 2007; d’Errico et al. 2005; Henshilwood et al. 2004).”