Ornaments to decorate the body first surfaced around 30,000 years ago. This was jewlery made out of shells, animal teeth, and ivory. Later these advanced into beads (28,000 years ago). This gives us a clue that they felt that the ornaments were important enough to devote their time (each bead took two hours to make).

Some of the ornaments that these people made were out of materials that were far from their homes, in some cases hundreds of miles. Scientists have come up with the interpretation that the different bands of people traded goods with each other. If this occured they must of had some ability to communicate with each other. This also brings up the point that we lived a rather peaceful existance with one another.