Do not start making jewelry even before you start talking?
Intriguing facts about jewelry designs older:
The experts believed until very recently, humans were making jewelry designs and using them when they started wearing clothes and using basic tools. This is when you can use the language and appreciate the symbolism. Jewelry should have been used to show some kind of symbolism-like power, status or possession, as we do today.
Shell beads found in Turkey, accounts ostrich eggshell in Kenya and elsewhere, all holes drilled in them deliberately, clearly indicating that they were the oldest seeds that were used for jewelry designs.
This is the whole period of forty to forty five thousand years ago, when humans began migrating from Africa to the European continent. But recent findings challenge this theory. Three accounts are found in Europe in Algeria and Israel, which are more than 100,000 years old. The three accounts were deliberately perforated holes.
A group of accounts is also on the southern coast of Africa, in Blombos Cave that are 75,000 years in age. All have holes starting. There was no evidence of the application of color or pigmentation, causing archaeologists like Professor Henshilwood and others conclude that these bills "… carrying the symbolic message" It's the only hole is not accidental. (Reference: "Jewels former BBC News 22 June 2006)
This dramatically pushes back the date of the first clear indication for the use of symbolism in the history of humans. The use of symbolism is the behavior that distinguishes us from animals.
I wonder if the design of jewelry then come even before the acquisition of language? Should we start making jewelry, even before he could talk? Well, why not?
Jewelry comes from the Latin root word "jocale" meaning "toy. We can learn to play before you can really talk? This happened in the same way in human civilization as well. I think.