Beads, arms and cloth: How 19th-century African consumers shaped global trade

The continent was a key driver of industrial production, contradicting the idea that it was only a supplier of cheap labour ...
The State

400-year-old beads show ‘extensive reach’ of Native American trade networks, study says

A new study of European beads reveals the “extensive reach” of Native American trade networks in the 17th century. Image from the journal Antiquity European glass beads reached parts of North America ...
Yale Environment 360

Beads show European trade in African interior used Indigenous routes

Tiny glass beads discovered in mountain caves about 25 miles from the shores of Lake Malawi in eastern-central Africa provide evidence that European trade in the continent’s hinterland was built on ...
JSTOR Daily

Standardized Analyses of Glass Trade Beads from Mgungundlovu and Ondini, Nineteenth Century Zulu Capitals

Renewed interest has been generated in studies of beads from southern African Iron Age sites. Statistical analyses of bead frequencies can now be undertaken, making use of a standardized, ...
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Identifying beads used in the 19th-century central East Africa trade

Includes table: Index of recorded East African bead names. Abstract: p. 49. Includes illustrations, color plate VIB, and map. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20 ...
Gizmodo

Found in Alaska, These Blue Beads Could Be the Oldest Evidence of European Goods in North America

European-crafted glass beads found at three different indigenous sites in northern Alaska date back to the pre-colonial period of North America, in what is an intriguing archaeological discovery.
Hyperallergic

Beads Found in Alaska Are Some of the Earliest European Objects Discovered in North America

These beads varities, known as “Early Blue” and “Ichtucknee Plain,” have never before been dated to pre-Columbian times. (photo by Lester Ross; courtesy of Robin O. Mills) Already a member? Sign in ...
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French Beads in France and Northeastern North America during the Sixteenth Century

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Although it is generally recognized that the French played an important role in the bead trade during the early contact period in Northeastern ...
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A glass bead sequence for southern Africa from the 8th to the 16th century AD / Marilee Wood

Illustrations (some color), maps, tables, graphs. Reprinted in Interconnections: glass beads and trade in southern and eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean, 7th to 16th centuries AD, by Marilee Wood ...