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Archaeologists discover oldest known bead in the Americas

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University of Wyoming archaeology Professor Todd Surovell and his team of collaborators have discovered a tube-shaped bead made of bone that is about 12,940 years old .

The bead, found at the La Prele Mammoth site in Converse County , is the oldest known bead in the Americas .

The researchers concluded that the bead was made from either a metapodial (the bones that link the phalanges of the digits to the more proximal bones of the limb) or a proximal phalanx (a bone found in the fingers and toes of humans and other vertebrates) of a hare.

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