First farmers made lucky beads


	First farmers made lucky beads

valann 47

6-17-2008 2:59 AM

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The authors of the research suggest that early agriculturalists attached special importance to this colour. 
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Beads they recovered from dig sites in Israel had been made from a variety of green minerals and the farmers went to great efforts to obtain them.</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://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7457755.stm"><P>
None of the minerals the beads were made from came from the immediate vicinity of the sites. Some were mined from as far afield as northern Syria, Cyprus and Saudi Arabia.
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White, black, brown, yellow and red beads were being made tens of thousands of years before the advent of agriculture. 
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But the researchers point out that green beads are first found in significant numbers during the agricultural revolution which gained pace from about 10,000 years ago in the Near East.</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://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7457755.stm">
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