Elemental Compositions and Glass Recipes

Dussubieux, Laure

doi:10.1007/978-981-16-3656-1_5

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“…Other research of glass beads from Kish (Dussubieux 2021) indicated that a string of translucent dark blue, opaque green and yellow beads dating from the 2nd to 1st century BCE (catalogue number 228806) were made from a glass type likely manufactured somewhere in South or Southeast Asia. This previous study showed an early circulation of glass beads from South or Southeast Asia to Iraq that started at the end of the 1st millennium BCE.…”

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The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads

2022

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Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated methods that analyze the glass composition, a process which can be utilized to trace bead usage through time and across regions. This book publishes open-access compositional data obtained from laser ablation – inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry, from a single analytical laboratory, providing a uniquely comparative data set. The geographic range includes studies of beads produced in Europe and traded widely across North America and beads from South and Southeast Asia traded around the Indian Ocean and beyond. The contributors provide new insight on the timing of interregional interactions, technologies of bead production and patterns of trade and exchange, using glass beads as a window to the past. 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.

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Section: Further Considerations On the Circulation Of Beads Between S...mentioning

confidence: 99%