Seventy Five Thousand Years of Jewellery single work   poetry   "A necklace of shells, a frippery, fashion"
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Seventy Five Thousand Years of Jewellery
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  • Epigraph: 'Delicate shell beads dating back 75,000 years may be the earliest know example of jewellery, an international team of archaeologists says.. The 41, pea-sized beads were found in a cave overlooking the Indian Ocean in South Africa and were made of tiny shells deliberately pierced and strung...' (ABC Radio News 16/4/2004)

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    y separately published work icon Magic Logic David Mortimer , Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2012 Z1916851 2012 selected work poetry Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2012 pg. 26
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