article_snippet: Neanderthals may have created and worn the world's first jewellery 130,000 years ago, according to scientists.
article_snippet: However, Dr David Frayer, an anthropologist at the University Kansas who led the study along with colleagues in Croatia, said the talons appear to have been made into symbolic jewellery 80,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe.
article_snippet: These remains clearly show that Neandertals made jewelry well before the appearance of modern humans in Europe, extending ornament production and symbolic activity early into the European Mousterian.'
article_snippet: Previously the oldest jewellery to be discovered in the world were some seashells that had showed signs of being used as beads around 100,000 years ago in Israel and Africa but were thought to have been made by modern humans.
article_snippet: The shells above were found in Israel and were thought to be the earliest example of beads that were worn as jewellery - dating to around 100,000 years ago - but the talons predate these by up to 30,000 years .
highlights_snippet: Anthropologists say it is the oldest example of jewellery to be discovered .
  
highlights_snippet: The claws predate the arrival of modern humans in Europe by 80,000 years .
  