Ndeya Berryman makes waist beads in the living room of her East Palo Alto, Calif. home on Friday, July 27, 2012. African waist beads are becoming more popular with women of all ethnicities, ages ...

Tiny beads are revealing big stories about human prehistory. A decade-long study of more than 1,500 beads found across Africa has revealed a 50,000-year-old social network, archaeologists say.

Ancient African Communities Living 1,800 Miles Away From Each Other Making Identical ... Miller analyzed over 1,500 ostrich eggshell beads recovered from 31 archaeological sites across eastern ...

Ear acupuncture using metal beads can help reduce weight, body mass index (BMI), and body fat in combination with a restricted diet, according to new research being presented at this year’s ...

Bass visits Senegal about every six months and brings back fabrics and waist beads. "The waist beads are known all over Africa and I think today, it's become an everyday thing in even our modern ...

Beads made from ostrich eggshells, produced by people over the past 50,000 years, provide evidence for a long period of social connection between eastern and southern Africa, followed by isolation ...

Ostrich eggshell beads reveal 10,000 years of cultural interaction across Africa. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 11 / 191127161512.htm ...

Our aim was to see how ostrich eggshell bead size has changed over the past 10,000 years. ... Curiously, the larger beads in southern Africa fall within the range of eastern African beads, ...

At Little Farm, a former sugar plantation near Durban, women paint with beads. "Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence," a new exhibition at the Anacostia Community Museum, showcases ...

New research suggests that acupuncture of the ear with beads may ... these strategies led to a considerable average weight loss of 8.6 kg and a reduction in waist circumference of 10.4 cm over a 3 ...

Tiny beads are revealing big stories about human prehistory. A decade-long study of more than 1,500 beads found across Africa has revealed a 50,000-year-old social network, archaeologists say.