A 4,800-year-old burial in Spain holds the largest collection of beads ever found (270,769 beads), enough to require a tonne of shellfish as raw material. The beads, which adorned the attire of the women buried there, would have taken 10 people working 8 hours a day for 206 days to make [2000×4295]
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[https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00325-7](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00325-7)
[https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/29/science/ivory-lady-burial-shell-beads](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/29/science/ivory-lady-burial-shell-beads)
Billionaires be billionairesĀ
I’m glad they weighed them to estimate the number instead of making some poor student count them out one by one (which I’ve heard of for assemblages up to 12,000 beads š … )
Fossilized Spaghetti Os is crazy.