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Beaded bags

There are loads of tasty bags about for spring and along with vintage leather, bows, bright colours and tassles, beads are big………

http://www.widemedia.com/fashionuk/news/2004/02/23/news0003104.htm l

Beautifully Beaded

There's never been a better time to be beaded………

http://www.widemedia.com/fashionuk/news/2002/12/27/news0002766.htm l

Eighties Fashion

Snap up plastic bead necklaces and chunky bangles.

http://www.widemedia.com/fashionuk/fashion/sweet_charity/eighties.html

Bead-raggled
Sure, she sizzles in a skimpy bikini in The Beach, but on the red carpet at the flick's debut, French beauty Virginie Ledoyen short-circuits. Her ornate, beaded lampshade gown from Jean-Paul Gaultier is………

http://image.eonline.com/Gossip/Fashion/000209b.html

Beads a clash of Stone Age symbols

By Leigh Dayton, Science writer, The Australian Newspaper.

April 17, 2004

BANGLES and bling bling go back further than discerning fashionistas imagine - 75,000 years back in fact. That's the latest style news from international archaeologists who have unearthed 41 snail-shell beads in South Africa's seaside Blombos Cave..........

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,93002 67%255E30417,00.html

Africa Find Shows Culture Dawn Earlier Than Thought

Wed Mar 31, 2004 04:05 PM ET
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ostrich egg beads and other artifacts from an ancient site in Tanzania suggest that humans started decorating themselves far earlier than once thought………. and if so, will challenge two popular theories -- that humans did not develop symbolic thinking until about 35,000 years ago and that when it happened, it happened first in Europe…………

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=471683 4

Ancient beads push back birth of human creativity

Thu Apr 15, 2004 04:56 PM ET
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Delicate shell beads dating back 75,000 years are the latest evidence that humans started to act modern almost as soon as they started to look modern, scientists said on Thursday………"These beads are symbolic, and symbolism equates with modern human behavior"………….

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=484221 6

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