| | <正>Beads tell civilization’s story. The earliest, made from shells as early as 100,000 years ago, are evidence—like cave paintings—of abstract thought. During the
【分类号】：H319.4
【DOI】：CNKI:SUN:HWYY.0.2007-Z2-045
【正文快照】：
eads tell civilization’s story. The earliest, made from shells as early as 100,000years ago, are evidence—like cave paintings—of abstract thought. During theBronze Age, cities saw trade of stone beads, prized for the technology thatproduced them and for their raw materials, such as carnelian. Around 2300 B.C.,artisans worked glass into imitation stone beads. Four millennia later, Venetians createdglass trade beads that Europeans carried to the ends of the Earth, exchanging for food,land,… |
