The 24,000-Year-Old Boy Buried Beneath A Stone Slab With 120 Beads And Mammoth-Ivory Jewelry — And The DNA Test That Revealed A Hidden Source Of Native American Ancestry
Consider the beads alone.
Manufacturing a bead from bone or ivory requires drilling — creating a hole through a dense material without metal tools.
In the Upper Paleolithic, this was done with stone borers: narrow, pointed stone tools rotated against the surface of the material until a hole was produced.
Each bead might require minutes or hours of sustained effort.
More than 120 beads in a single burial represents an investment of time and labor that is staggering to contemplate.
Someone made those beads.
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