Posted on 08/04/2023 11:01:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
More than 2,500 stone and shell beads strewn across the child's upper body, along with a double-holed stone pendant positioned behind the neck and a mother-of-pearl ring laying on the chest, originally formed the impressive necklace, archaeologist Hala Alarashi and colleagues report August 2 in PLOS ONE. Perforations around the upper half of the mother-of-pearl ring held strings or cords for seven rows of beads that connected to the pendant, they say...
Artisans fashioned the necklace out of stones and shells imported from different parts of the Middle East. Two amber beads represent the oldest yet discovered.
The intricate necklace had come apart by the time the youngster's grave was excavated in 2018 at a site in southern Jordan called Ba'ja. No strings or cords were preserved. So Alarashi and colleagues reconstructed the ornament first by analyzing the distribution of beads on the child's skeletal remains. Microscopic differences in the intensity of wear in the beads' openings helped to determine the position of each bead in strung rows. Comparisons of the partially preserved ring to similar objects previously found at Ba'ja let the researchers estimate how many necklace cords it could have held.
Alarashi suspects that a large group of mourners gathered at the densely inhabited village, located on a mountain plateau, to lay to rest the necklace-bedecked child, who was approximately 8 years old. Radiocarbon dating of charred wood bits puts the occupation of this farming village at between 7400 B.C. and 6800 B.C. Public rituals at gravesites occurred as early as around 12,000 years ago in the Middle East (SN: 8/30/10).
The reconstructed necklace is now on display at Jordan's Petra Museum in Wadi Musa.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...
This impressive necklace, reassembled from beads, a pendant and a mother-of-pearl ring, was found in a child’s grave at an ancient Middle Eastern farming village. Black foam tubes replace poorly preserved beads in this reconstruction.H. Alarashi Et Al/PLOS One 2023
Must have been a lot of work to put it back together. :^)
How did they know what it’s supposed to look like?...................
That’s a consequence of the very, very careful excavation — the necklace (and other such artifacts) are uncovered, photographed in situ, then removed piece by piece.
装上轮子 -> 插入圆柱体 -> 用短螺丝组装支撑托盘 -> 用长螺丝组装 T 型骨架 -> 将支撑托盘与圆柱体连接 -> 将后部插入支撑托盘，插入后确保拧紧红色螺丝 圆圈 -> 用粗螺丝组装两个扶手 -> 用三角螺丝组装头枕 -> 固定头枕和背枕，将它们的带子穿过下背部区域的间隙 -> 完成。
注意：拧紧螺钉时不要立即拧紧（单个），待所有螺钉都插入到位后再拧紧。
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Zhuāng shàng lúnzi -> chārù yuánzhù tǐ -> yòng duǎn luósī zǔzhuāng zhīchēng tuōpán -> yòng cháng luósī zǔzhuāng T xíng gǔjià -> jiāng zhīchēng tuōpán yǔ yuánzhù tǐ liánjiē -> jiāng hòu bù chārù zhīchēng tuōpán, chārù hòu quèbǎo níngjǐn hóngsè luósī yuánquān -> yòng cū luósī zǔzhuāng liǎng gè fúshǒu -> yòng sānjiǎo luósī zǔzhuāng tóu zhěn -> gùdìng tóu zhěn hé bèi zhěn, jiāng tāmen de dàizi chuānguò xià bèibù qūyù de jiànxì -> wánchéng.
Zhùyì: Níngjǐn luódīng shí bùyào lìjí níngjǐn (dāngè), dài suǒyǒu luódīng dōu chārù dàowèi hòu zài níngjǐn.
Rúguǒ nín duì ānzhuāng yǒu yíwèn, qǐng liánxì kèhù zhīchí.
Very different peoples - culture - there than found there today; predates Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
I don’t read cursive....................
𝓼𝓾𝔁 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾.
That’s beautiful!
Just stop! 😅
At that time, beads and beadwork were the must-haves, kinda like mobile phones are now, or toasters with bluetooth.
A lot of work to make it. That vid I linked to recently about the Harappan civilization, the speaker’s CV includes work analyzing methods of bead-drilling in the Indus Valley in what were prehistoric times. Bead trade was enormous (still is, but we think little of it) even then. Bead manufacturing and trade was pretty huge. By the late BC, bead was used as ballast in ships with different primary cargo, and came in handy as some additional merch.
Yes; the article said they analyzed how one bead rubbed against another. I hope it was computer-aided!
Computing can help this century will validate so much of what we think we know about history, and cast other stuff on the trash heap. If we are allowed to remain free...
The researcher used a silicon caulk, injected into the core of each bead he studied. When it set up, he pulled it out to examine the grooves and such. Through experiment, he reproduced the various patterns, identifying distinct techniques the drillers used, and probably local/regional “schools” of the manufacturing methods.
An elevated application of booger glue!
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