When Did Adornment Begin?

Shell beads excavated in South Africa have been estimated to be more than 50,000 years old and may be the oldest example of human adornment.

When did body adornment start?

Body Designs.

Representing individual, familial, and cultural concepts of beauty, many of these adornments have roots in the 500-1590 period of West African history.

What was the reason for the first use of body adornment?

BODY ADORNMENT includes painting the body, tattooing, piercing, decorative incision and scarification of the skin. Body adornment was originally done for rituals, aesthetic or medicinal reasons, as well as for magic or religious gatherings.

Robert Thorne

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