Glass beads from Australian Indigenous sites

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Abstract

The study of glass trade beads from various archaeological contexts, including contact and post-contact sites in North America, has been constructive in both advancing analytical methods and also in understanding past cultural entanglements (Hancock 2013); nonetheless, corresponding finds and reported studies from Australian Indigenous site contexts – such as rock-shelters and middens – are comparatively rare, occurring in reported quantities numbering less than 300 to date, and are largely constrained to western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory (NT) (Allen et al. 2018; James et al. 2017; Litster et al. 2018; Wesley and Litster 2015a, b; Fig. 1).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEncyclopedia of Global Archaeology
EditorsClaire Smith
Place of PublicationSwitzerland
PublisherSpringer, Cham
Pages4583-4589
Number of pages7
Edition2
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-30018-0
ISBN (Print)978-3-030-30016-6, 978-3-030-30017-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Glass beads
  • Art
  • Indigenous Australians or Aborginal and Torres Strait Islanders
  • Archaeology

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    Litster, M., 2020, Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Smith, C. (ed.). 2 ed. Switzerland: Springer, Cham, p. 6692-6699 8 p.

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