More than a quarter million beads found in a tomb with female skeletons were used to decorate the women's ceremonial dresses, suggesting they were powerful leaders five millennia ago.

Stone Age peoples may also have sliced animal hides ... It's impossible to know definitively, but experts think beads made of bone, ivory, shells, and teeth were decorative and might also have ...

An unprecedented discovery: more than 270,000 beads made primarily from seashells and, to a lesser extent, from stone and bone ... beads has opened a new chapter in research on Copper Age societies in ...

Nearly two decades ago, researchers discovered a large tomb complex in Spain dating to between 3,200 and 2,200 years ago. The ...

Iron Age amber beads from the Baltic Sea found in Syria. Credit: M. N. Mortensen et al. / National Museum of Denmark A recent analysis of beads discovered in the ancient city of Hama, Syria, has ...

For instance, obsidian, a type of stone particularly suited ... symbolic material culture such as beads, which may have become critical to mediate both local and distant social relationships within ...