Just five years ago there were real concerns the ancient Aboriginal practice of shell stringing would be lost in Tasmania. In 2010, the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) started running luna ...

People living on the Israeli coast 120,000 years ago strung ocher-painted seashells on flax string, according to a recent study in which archaeologists examined microscopic traces of wear inside ...

A set of 120,000-year-old shells from the Qafzeh Cave in northern Israel. Ancient humans collected these shells, which had natural perforations, and arranged them on lengths of string. Bar-Yosef Mayer ...

For the first time, rare and original shell necklaces made by Bass Strait Pakana ancestors from the 1800s through to contemporary artist's works will be exhibited side-by-side. The tradition of shell ...

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