This physical reconstruction of a 9,000-year-old necklace is on display at Jordan's Petra Museum. The necklace was buried with an 8-year-old child in a grave in the Neolithic village of Ba'ja.

Researchers have reassembled an ancient ornate necklace discovered in the grave of a child who lived in the Neolithic village of Ba’ja in what’s now southern Jordan. More than 2,500 colorful ...

The necklace is described in a study published August 2 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE. [Related: .] The Neolithic Age began in roughly 10,000 BCE and is considered the later part of the ...