Thousands of years before Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, tiny beads helped humans make social connections
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A decade-long study of more than 1,500 beads made from ostrich eggshells and found across Africa has revealed a 50,000-year-old social network, archaeologists say. A string of modern ostrich eggshell beads from eastern Africa. The donut-shaped beads are among the earliest kinds of personal adornment found in the archaeological record -- and some traditional, hunter-gatherer groups in southern Africa still make and use the beads today.
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