article_snippet.sent: Experts from Centre for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHUS) in New York City studied neolithic ornaments (pictured) to understand how farming spread.
article_snippet.sent: These beads are examples of personal ornaments worn by the first European farming societies .
article_snippet.sent: To come to their conclusion, their looked at the adoption or rejection of ornamental beads or bracelets worn by different populations in the Early Neolithic period, which stretched from 8,000 to 5,000 BC.
article_snippet.sent: Examples of ornaments worn by European foraging societies are shown .
article_snippet.sent: Previous studies have shown a link between the embrace of survival methods and the adoption of particular ornaments, so by looking at the ornaments, the experts were able to understand the spread of farming practices for the first time.
article_snippet.sent: the experts examined some 200 bead-type objects found at more than 400 European sites over a 3,000-year period, tracing the adoption of ornaments linked to farming populations in order to explain the patterns of transition from foraging and hunting to farming.
article_snippet.sent: the experts found ornaments linked to farmers, such as human-shaped beads and bracelets composed of perforated shells, from eastern Greece and the Black Sea to France’s Brittany region and from the Mediterranean Sea northward to Spain.
article_snippet.sent: This area held on to decorative wear typically used by hunting and foraging populations, such as perforated shells rather than beads or bracelets found in farming communities.
article_snippet.sent: A stock image of a Neolithic hut, which may have been used by early farmers in modern day France, is shown .
highlights_snippet.sent: Experts from Centre for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CIRHUS) in New York City studied Neolithic ornaments .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Necklaces made from shells and teeth date from 5,000 to 8,000 years ago .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Spread of early jewellery found to correspond to the spread of farming .
  