Stone Ornamentation
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on 09-12-2011 at 11:53 AM (2014 Views)
I have a more complete description of some of the crafts that I will discuss in this blog along with photos at my studio at http://craftsofthepast.artfire.com
In addition to making stone tools, mankind also used stone to satisfy his more aesthetic and spiritual needs. He thus came to create body ornamentation to attract people to him and to protect himself from bad things such as disease and evil spirits.
When a person found a stone such as the ones on this string of beads found in the ancient Bronze Age burial grounds in Afghanistan, he might grind and polish them to a desired shape and then pierce them with a sharp point with grit applied, put them on a string and wear them because they were beautiful and functioned as an amulet at the same time.