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Published online 31 March 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.716
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Gold necklace reveals early 'bling'
Oldest gold status symbols from Americas unearthed in Peru.
A four-thousand-year-old burial site may change our notions about that most ubiquitous of status symbols: gold. The oldest-yet find of gold beads in the Americas shows that even people in small communities could show off a little bling.
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"Status symbol" is a reach. It could just as easily have been made by someone with an artistic impulse.