Worlds oldest 'bling'

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3-31-2008 8:13 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/572f86d5-0cad-42ef-874f-4dbb1147de66/0CA560A9-92ED-4009-A9BF-ACF9FA46F026/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080331/full/news.2008.716.html" href="http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080331/full/news.2008.716.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nature.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080331/full/news.2008.716.html"><P>A four-thousand-year-old burial site may change our notions about that most ubiquitous of status symbols: gold. The oldest-yet find of gold beads in the Americas shows that even people in small communities could show off a little bling.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080331/full/news.2008.716.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nature.com/img/87574D9C-8432-478C-B819-9A92BDF28211" alt="On the cusp of inequality: the oldest gold jewellery in the Americas." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080331/full/news.2008.716.html">Gold has always been a symbol of wealth. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080331/full/news.2008.716.html"><P>One theory is that complicated gold working is exclusive to stratified societies with elites rich enough to support it, says Mark Aldenderfer, an anthropologist at the University of Arizona, Tucson.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080331/full/news.2008.716.html"><P>So Aldenderfer was surprised to find the metal in a small grave at a site of hunter-gatherers in southern Peru. The hamlet, consisting of a handful of dwellings, was probably settled around 2300 BC by former nomads. Carbon dating of wood from the grave puts it sometime between 2155 and 1936 BC, at least 400 years earlier than the previous oldest example of worked gold in the Americas.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080331/full/news.2008.716.html"> it is a perfect status symbol. “It’s attractive and scarce,” he notes. “These are the two attributes you need for a status symbol.”</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0CA560A9-92ED-4009-A9BF-ACF9FA46F026/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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