Delicate beads found at dig site

Ostrich eggshell beads with holes as small as 1.2 millimeters in diameter have been unearthed at the Gezishan archaeological site in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region in northwest China.

The find sets a record for the smallest artificial ornaments yet found for the Paleolithic period, Guangming Daily reported on Monday.

The Gezishan site, dating to between 12,700 and 8,000 years ago, is a Paleolithic archaeological site discovered in the late 1980s in Qingtongxia.