Chumash Indians Used Shell Beads As Money 2,000 Years Ago – New Study

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Chumash Indians produced shell beads for thousands of years in the Santa Barbara Channel region, and had special bead-manufacturing sites. The Chumash are a Native American people who historically inhabited the central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what is now San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, […]