So if there was a trade network of the ornaments and maybe other goods
between hundreds or thousands of kilometers (Indian ocean-Levant),
archaelogists and historicians must re-examine their comments on defining
"developed tradework" as no underdeveloped version at least for the last
10000 years is seen.

Thank you for the remarkable info,


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Subject: Re: 100,000 year old shell beads


> Dear Umit,
> I don't have any other explanation for it.
> At the Natufian site of En Malaha (about 10-9 thousand years ago), on the
> west bank of the former Hula swamps in Upper Galilee, Israel, we had
besides
> the local land- and freshwater molluscs marine molluscs from the
> Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea, freshwater bivalves from the Nile, in Egypt
> and pliocene freshwater snails from a site at the border of Turkey and
> Syria! A similar site in the Eastern part of Syria produced shell beads
made
> from freshwater molluscs from the Sea of Galilee, a few kilometers from En
> Malaha.
> Already during those days and even much earlier (see the recent paper in
> Science) trade was already well developed even over large distance. The
site
> in Algiers was at least 190 km from the nearest shore!
> Regards,
> Henk
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:47 PM
> Subject: Re: 100,000 year old shell beads
>
>
> >
> > How could the Indian Ocean species have reached the archaeologcail
sites.
> > It
> > is an evidence for trade?
>
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