1,200 BC: Cowrie Shells The first use of cowries, the shell of a mollusc that was widely available in the shallow waters of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, was in China. Historically, many ...
The timing also lines up with a major turning point in Europe’s history—military and earthwork technologies spread across the ...
While the gold objects that made up the bulk of the collection were dated to between 1500 and 1200 BC, smelted terrestrial ...