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FANTASTIC 2000 YR ANTIQUE MEZCALA BEAD ANCIENT
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Item Number: se55
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This one belongs in a bead museum. It is a cylindrical stone bead from 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. SE55 (2) r
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