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Is this mammoth-ivory pendant Eurasia’s oldest surviving jewellery?

Radiocarbon dating suggests 41,500-year-old carved tusk fragment could be the region’s earliest known example of jewellery decorated by humans.
  1. Tosin Thompson
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A 41,500-year-old pendant carved from a piece of a woolly mammoth tusk could be the oldest known example of decorated jewellery in Eurasia made by humans, according to archaeologists.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03534-y

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  1. Talamo, S. et al. Sci. Rep. 11, 22078 (2021).

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