The elemental analysis of glass beads technology, chronology and exchange

This volume will be a key reference for glass researchers, archaeologists, and any scholars interested in material culture and exchange; it provides a wide range of case studies in the investigation and interpretation of glass bead composition, production and exchange since ancient times. Contributo...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] LEUVEN UNIVERSITY PRESS 2022, 2022
Series:Studies in archaeological sciences
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Contextualizing this volume in the field of glass bead studies
  • 2 Glass beads and human pasts
  • 3 Characterizing glass recipes for distinctive polychrome glass bead types in Ontario, Canada
  • 4 Simple blue (IIa40) beads from 17th century Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: Dating, origins, and elemental composition
  • 5 Glass trade bead analysis at Upper Hampton Farm (40RH41): A case study for 17th and 18th century Non-Cherokee habitation in East Tennessee Valley
  • 6 Compositional analysis of compound drawn white glass beads from colonial California: Implications for chronology and dispersal
  • 7 Glass beads and evidence for early "pre-contact" trade in Northwestern Alaska
  • 8 The exchange of beads in Central Thailand in the protohistoric period: Glass objects from Phromthin Tai
  • 9 Shifting patterns of glass bead cargo of 15th
  • 17th century Philippines shipwrecks
  • 10 Sources of glass beads from the High Himalayas: 1200 BCE-CE 650
  • 11 Inland from the sea: Rethinking the value of mineral soda alumina drawn glass beads from medieval North India
  • 12 Beads from the lowlands of Northwestern Ethiopia
  • 13 Inland glass beads in Northeast Tanzania, 8th-17th centuries CE
  • 14 Glass beads at Unguja Ukuu in the late 1st millennium CE: Results of the 2018 excavation in Zanzibar
  • 15 Chemical analysis of precolonial Indian Ocean glass beads found in the southern African interior: linking global objects to local and regional change
  • 16 Morphology and elemental composition: provenancing glass beads from 12th
  • 13th century Mayotte
  • 17 Elemental composition of glass beads from the eastern Mediterranean region: Chronology and provenance of material from Tel Anafa, Israel
  • 18 South Asian beads at the site of Kish, Iraq
  • 19 Technology, chronology, and exchange examined through glass beads, Appendix Supplementary Materials
  • Includes bibliographical references