First farmers made 'lucky beads'
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Some of the first farmers in the Near East probably used green beads as amulets to protect themselves and their crops, a study suggests. The authors of the research suggest that early agriculturalists attached special importance to this colour.
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.
Details appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
Daniella Bar-Yosef Mayer, from Israel's University of Haifa, and Naomi Porat, from the Geological Survey of Israel in Jerusalem, examined 221 beads from eight Neolithic (or late stone age) sites dating to between 11,600 years ago and 8,200 years ago.
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.
White, black, brown, yellow and red beads were being made tens of thousands of years before the advent of agriculture.
More at BBC News.
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