An 8,500-year-old ornament carved by hand from a scallop shell was found deep inland in California, hundreds of miles from where the shell originated — a tiny man-made object revealing how far people and prized possessions were already travelling thousands of years ago

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  An 8,500-year-old ornament carved by hand from a scallop shell was found deep inland in California, hundreds of miles from where the shell originated — a tiny man-made object revealing how far people and prized possessions were already travelling thousands of years ago
  A thumb-sized bead suggests California's inland people were trading across vast distances when most of the world still lived by the ice age's rules.