Archaeologist Silvia Ferrara described the organization of lines by recurring principles—parallelisms, grids, rotations, and ...

Mankind's ancestors may have exchanged ostrich eggshell beads with one another, the "Stone Age versions of Facebook or Twitter ‘likes,'" according to a new study. The research, published in the ...

Fragments of decorated ostrich eggshells. (Texier et al., J. Archaeol. Sci., 2013) Ancient humans were surprisingly creative, ...

Thirty-three thousand years ago, on the southern tip of the continent Africa, ostrich eggs were carved into beads and kept as ornamentation. These beads held value – they weren't just worn around ...

The ostrich has been around for thousands of years, and researchers have found evidence in ancient ostrich eggshells about extreme climate change that faced the ostrich and the early ancestors of ...

Maasai women from Laikipia County showcase beaded products in Nanyuki town after the county government opened a weekly Ushanga Day for women in the interior northern Laikipia to showcase the products.

Foragers today who live in southern Africa's Kalahari Desert know that a drought or war can threaten their community's survival. To mitigate these risks, they enter into partnerships with kin in other ...

Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced by human early ancestors. Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new ...

Hunter-gatherers strung a social safety net across much of southern Africa starting at least 33,000 years ago, a new study suggests. And it was held together with ostrich eggshell beads. Some of these ...

Researchers present an expanded analysis of African ostrich eggshell beads, testing the hypothesis that larger beads signal the arrival of herders. The data reveals a more nuanced interpretation that ...

Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced by human early ancestors. The research shows parts of the interior of South Africa that ...