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Early ritual fertility beads (?) & Oldest Jewellery

The color green is often used today in ritual jewelry to denote green nature.  Did our ancestors do the same?
See this BBC News article- First farmers made ‘lucky beads’ 16 June 2008

And for possibly the world’s oldest (happens to be shell) jewelry: Study reveals ‘oldest jewellery’ 22, June 2006

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Under the Spell of the Druids- Ronald Hutton, History Today May 2009
'Noah’s Flood’ Kick-started European Farming? (Science Daily, 11-19-2007)

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