FANTASTIC 2000 Y OLD ANCIENT ANTIQUE MEZCALA STONE BEAD

This one belongs in a bead museum.  It is a cylindrical stone bead, of wedge section to interface with adjacent beads, froam the Mezcala culture dating to about the time of Christ.  It was worked to a fine cylindrical form, 3/8” diameter then drilled from both sides with a cone shaped rod and sand.  That produces a hole which is the intersection of two cones and called by antiquarians and archeologists “biconical”.  The labor involved to produce this bead is staggering.  Imagine picking up a very hard pebble, a small stick and some sand and with nothing more than that, polishing the stone to a uniform shape and drilling a hole through it!  This must have been very valuable when it was made. Condition is as shown.   JZ46 (1)

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