[Jewelry making - Article 01081] - Re: [Orchid] New[?] Jewelry Idea

[Len and Judy Bjorkman]

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>     Men wear jewellery for different reasons then women do.... For a
>     [stone age] man to wear something attracting attention, meant
>     something else. It meant that his chances of becoming a target for
>     an attack were significantly increased, so to survive, one must be
>     circumspect.... This behavior is a part of our genetic code and is
>     not likely to change... 

    Leonid, I hate to discourage your speculations, but I don't think we
    know enough about Stone Age people to say how the sexes used
    jewelry, and I doubt that any behavior of that type is "part of our
    genetic code." If Stone Age women had time to sit "around the fire,"
    then so did men, and if men were at risk "of becoming a target for an
    attack," so were women. 

    Some recent research shows some Stone Age societies in some parts of
    the world were much more egalitarian than our imaginations given them
    credit for. 

All the best,
Judy Bjorkman
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