Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads

Laure Dussubieux is a senior research scientist and manages the Elemental Analysis Facility of The Field Museum in Chicago. Heather Walder is a research associate of The Field Museum and an assistant teaching professor at the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse. She co-directs Gete Anishinaabeg Izhichigewin, a community-based Indigenous archaeology project in Red Cliff, Wisconsin.

• List of Illustrations List of Tables Foreword Chapter 1 Contextualizing this volume in the field of glass bead studies Laure Dussubieux and Heather WalderChapter 2 Glass beads and human pasts Alison Carter, Elliot H. Blair, Carla Klehm and Lee M. PanichPart I: European Trade BeadsChapter 3 Characterizing glass recipes for distinctive polychrome glass bead types in Ontario, Canada Alicia Hawkins and Heather WalderChapter 4 Simple blue (IIa40) beads from 17th century Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: Dating, origins, and elemental composition Elliot H. Blair and Laure DussubieuxChapter 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 Jessica Dalton-Carriger and Elliot H. BlairChapter 6 Compositional analysis of compound drawn white glass beads from colonial California: Implications for chronology and dispersal Lee M. Panich, Laure Dussubieux, Tsim D. Schneider, Christopher Canzonieri, Irenne Zwierlein, Christopher Zimmer and Michelle ZimmerChapter 7 Glass beads and evidence for early “pre-contact” trade in Northwestern Alaska 137 Thomas R. Fenn, Laure Dussubieux, Heather Walder and Douglas D. AndersonPart II: Glass Beads in South and Southeast Asia Chapter 8 The exchange of beads in Central Thailand in the protohistoric period: Glass objects from Phromthin Tai Alison Carter, Laure Dussubieux, Thomas R. Fenn, Thanik Lertcharnrit and T.O. PryceChapter 9 Shifting patterns of glass bead cargo of 15th – 17th century Philippines shipwrecks Jennifer Craig and Laure DussubieuxChapter 10 Sources of glass beads from the High Himalayas: 1200 BCE-CE 650 Mark Aldenderfer and Laure DussubieuxChapter 11 Inland from the sea: Rethinking the value of mineral soda alumina drawn glass beads from medieval North India Mudit Trivedi and Laure DussubieuxPart III: Glass Beads in Africa and Western Indian Ocean Chapter 12 Beads from the lowlands of Northwestern Ethiopia Lindsey Trombetta, Laure Dussubieux, Agazi Negash, Daniel Dalmas, Metasebia Endalamaw, Mulugeta Feseha, Lawrence Todd and John KappelmanChapter 13 Inland glass beads in Northeast Tanzania, 8th-17th centuries CE Jonathan R. Walz and Laure DussubieuxChapter 14 Glass beads at Unguja Ukuu in the late 1st millennium CE: Results of the 2018 excavation in Zanzibar Akshay Sarathi, Jonathan R. Walz and Laure DussubieuxChapter 15 Chemical analysis of precolonial Indian Ocean glass beads found in the southern African interior: linking global objects to local and regional change Carla Klehm and Laure DussubieuxChapter 16 Morphology and elemental composition: provenancing glass beads from 12th – 13th century Mayotte 323 Marilee Wood, Laure Dussubieux, Mudit Trivedi and Martial PaulyPart IV: Glass Beads in the Middle-EastChapter 17 Elemental composition of glass beads from the eastern Mediterranean region: Chronology and provenance of material from Tel Anafa, Israel Katherine A. Larson and Laure DussubieuxChapter 18 South Asian beads at the site of Kish, Iraq Laure DussubieuxChapter 19 Technology, chronology, and exchange examined through glass beads Heather Walder and Laure DussubieuxAppendixSupplementary Materials >