NEW Archaeologists discover more than 100 ornaments for use in piercings in ~11,000-year-old adult burials in Türkiye, providing the earliest conclusive evidence for body perforation and suggesting that piercing may have been a coming-of-age ritual.#AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵 pic.twitter.com/io71ltZS5b

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