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Trade Beads

Trade Beads is a type of artifact within the study of glass beadmaking that consists of historically significant beads produced primarily for use as currency, symbolic exchange, or commercial barter in cross-cultural trade networks, distinguished by their standardized forms, mass production, and role in facilitating economic and social interactions across regions and periods.

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91

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61

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2017–2026

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Publications

52

Asia's maritime bead trade: 300 B.C. to the present

Choice Reviews Online · 2002 · 149 citations

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Zanzibar and Indian Ocean trade in the first millennium CE: the glass bead evidence

Marilee Wood, Serena Panighello, Emilio Francesco Orsega et al. · Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences · 2016 · 96 citations · Full text

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Gao and Igbo-Ukwu: Beads, interregional trade, and beyond

Timothy Insoll, Thurstan Shaw · African Archaeological Review · 1997 · 96 citations

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Making Connections: Relationships between International Trade and Glass Beads from the Shashe-Limpopo Area

Marilee Wood · Goodwin Series · 2000 · 78 citations

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A Raman spectroscopic study of the Mapungubwe oblates: glass trade beads excavated at an Iron Age archaeological site in South Africa

Linda C. Prinsloo, Philippe Colomban · Journal of Raman Spectroscopy · 2007 · 77 citations

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Authors

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  1. RG
    R. G. V. Hancock

    University of Toronto, Canada

    5 publications · 186 citations

    6

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  2. IR
    I. R. Kenyon

    University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

    5 publications · 186 citations

    6

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  3. MW
    Marilee Wood

    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    5 publications · 287 citations

    5

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  4. PC
    Philippe Colomban

    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

    5 publications · 188 citations

    5

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  5. SA
    Susanne Aufreiter

    University of Toronto, Canada

    4 publications · 138 citations

    5

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Institutions

61

  1. University of Pretoria

    Pretoria, South Africa

    6 h-index

    10 publications

    408 citations

  2. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    6 h-index

    19 publications

    669 citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    361 citations

  4. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    209 citations

  5. Sorbonne Université

    Paris, France

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    201 citations

  6. Canadian Heritage

    Gatineau, Canada

    4 h-index

    3 publications

    131 citations

  7. University of Cape Town

    Rondebosch, South Africa

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    58 citations

  8. Field Museum of Natural History

    Chicago, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    104 citations

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Venues

  1. Historical Archaeology

    4 publications · 135 citations

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  2. Beads (Ottawa. Online)/Beads

    4 publications · 80 citations

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  3. Archaeometry

    3 publications · 113 citations

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  4. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa

    3 publications · 79 citations

    3

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  5. African Archaeological Review

    2 publications · 107 citations

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