wood or beautiful gla beads or fiber, perhaps. i think it s conceivable that mary had jewelry on that she used to wear jewelry. early finds from the site include a series of metal rods with flattened ends. which probably are make-up spat e spatulas. if in your opinion a rural place like galilee, you wouldn t want make-up on laboring in the fields, for instance, it would have been reserved for special occasions, perhaps for feast days. it s fair to think of a woman from a family of craftsman, for example, as having access to at least a modest amount of cosmetics. a woman s life in first century nazareth was centered on the home, and her children. mary, like most jewish women would have spent her day providing for her family which