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Chumash Indians were using highly worked shell beads as currency 2000 years ago – Science Daily
Archaeologists show that the Chumash Indians had been using shell beads as money for at least 800 years.
As one of the most experienced archaeologists studying California’s Native Americans, Lynn Gamble(link is external) knew the Chumash Indians had been using shell beads as money for at least 800 years.But an exhaustive review of some of the shell bead record led the UC Santa Barbara professor emerita of anthropology to an astonishing conclusion: The hunter-gatherers centered on the Southcentral Coast of Santa Barbara were using highly worked shells as currency as long as 2,000 years ago.
“If the…
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