The unspoken signals – the Clothes and the Earrings you wear…

It seems we’ve been communicating nonverbally for a very long time.  A University of Arizona press release reports that “The necklace, nametag, earrings or uniform you chose to put on this morning might say more than you realize about your social status, job or some other aspect of your identity. Anthropologists say humans have been doing this—finding ways to communicate about themselves without the fuss of conversation—for millennia.  But shell beads recovered from a cave in western Morocco, determined to be between 142,000 and 150,000 years old, suggest that this behavior may go back much farther than previously thought.”

“Those Earrings Are So Last Year – But the Reason You’re Wearing Them Is Ancient.”  2021.  Press release, The University of Arizona, https://news.arizona.edu/story/those-earrings-are-so-last-year-reason-yo…