Knowledge Center — indonesia

We Have Always Liked To Bling Turns out ice age humans liked to make and wear jewelry as much as we do. In Indonesia, scientists discovered 30,000-year-old jewelry, art, and artifacts that date back to the last ice age. The new study, published on Monday, April 3, 2017 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal, reports these items were all made by cave dwellers on modern-day Sulawesi, an island in the Indonesian archipelago.  Some artifacts found recently were beads from the teeth of deer-pigs or babirusa shaped like small donut discs which were worn on a necklace in...