Complete Yayoi Period bangle found

It is the first complete glass tiffany jewelry to be excavated from the Yayoi Period (300 B.C.-300 A.D.) remains, and the first time that so many iron swords have been found in a grave from that period, according to officials of the Iwataki Board of Education.
Iron swords were very precious at that time because it was technically difficult to produce them, they said.
The discovery of so many swords shows a powerful kingdom prospered in the area before legendary Queen Himiko ruled the Yamataikoku Kingdom, researchers said.
The location of Yamataikoku is not known. Some archaeologists say it was in northern Kyushu while others assert it was in the Kinki region.
The swords and the pendants were among a large number of relics found in the Oburominami remains located on a hill near Amanohashidate, a famous tourist spot. The bangle is made of blue-tinted glass and measures 3.9 inches on the outside and 2.3 inches on the inside, officials said.
It weighs 6 ounces and its ring is 0.7 inches thick. The bangle was found near the left wrist of skeletal remains. officials said.
Wear it or try to exterminate it? People are scooping up Lucite bug bangles from the Philippines at a SoHo street vendor's table. The bracelets, which sell for $10 each on the corner of Greene and Prince Streets, feature brilliantly colored beetles with orange, blue and green carapaces and red thoraxes.
''We may be inexpensive, but we're not cheap,'' said Allen C. Dawson, who sells the scarab bracelets, as well as bangles with scorpions, fireflies and ''mixed bugs.'' O.K., so who wants bugs entombed in Lucite? Cristina Vergano, earrings, wore one at the opening of her show on Wednesday at the Woodward Gallery on Broome Street. ''It's a fun thing that you could wear with something very elegant or very casual,'' said Ms. Vergano, who was dressed in a black suit. ''It's its own statement.''
Even if the statement is ''Euew!''