Beautiful Beads
We humans have been creating personal adornment for over 100,000 years! The earliest forms of adornment are shell beads found by archaeologists in Israel. Prior to this discovery, there were ostrich-eggshell beads found in Kenya that were made 82,000 years ago. More and more treasures are added to this list, and it’s so exciting to know that, even when people lived with very simple means, they had the desire to make and create things beyond the ordinary. Glass trade beads emerged in the fifteenth century and were primarily used by Europeans to trade for African resources. Africans did not have the means to make glass beads, so they traded and wore those beads proudly. As technology and manufacturing has changed, so has the bead. You can now find beads made in…