The First Collectors
In short: The evidence establishes that the impulse to collect and display objects is deeply rooted in human prehistory, from symbolic shell beads 160,000 years ago to the massive ornamental assemblages of the Neolithic period.
A 1:35 short film in the series “The Collector's Mind”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: PLOS ONE, “On holes and strings: Earliest displays of human adornment in the Middle Palaeolithic”.
Sources used in this film
- PLOS ONE — On holes and strings: Earliest displays of human adornment in the Middle Palaeolithic · View →
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- Summary by Intellect · source: PLOS ONE: On holes and strings: Earliest displays of human adornment in the Middle Palaeolithic
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