Proceedings of the 1986 Shell Bead Conference : selected papers

xi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. Contents: The Anthropology of Shell Beads: subsistence, systems and symbols / Lynn Ceci An Introduction to Molluscs and Their Identification / Jane M. Topping Conservation of Archaeological Shell Artifacts / Nancy Davis Sourcing Marine Shell Artifacts / Cheryl Claassen The Manufacture of Beads from Shell / Peter Francis Jr And Introduction to the Shell and Shell Artifact Collection at the Rochester Museum and Science Centre / Charles F. Hayes III A Selection of Drawings by Gene Mackay Tracing Wampum's Origins: Shell Bead Evidence from Archaeological Sites in Western and Coastal New York / Lynn Ceci Fluctuations through Time in the Use of Marine Shell at Seneca Iroquois Sites / Martha L. Sempowski The Significance of Some Shell Excavated on Iroquoian Archaeological Sites in Ontario / James F. Pendergast Shell Bead Production and Exchange in Prehistoric Mississippian Populations / Richard W. Yerkes Shell Beads and Ornaments: Socioeconomic Indicators of the Past / Julia E. Hammett and Beverly A. Sizemore Formed Shell Beads from Tikal, Guatemala / Hattula Moholy-Nagy Marine Shell Symbolism in Andean Culture / Ann M. Mester Late Paleolithic and Neolithic Marine shells in the Southern Levant as Cultural Markers / Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Sociocultural aspects of marine mollusc use in the terminal Pleistocene of the Negev and Sinai Regions of the Southern Levant / Nigel Goring-Morris Social Implications of Ornaments in Hunter-Gatherer Burials / Stuart J. Fiedel Wampum of the Six Nations Confederacy at the Grand River Territory: 1784-1986 / Paul Williams Nulliak Pendants: Symbolic Ornaments in Northeastern Prehistory and Beyond / William Fitzhugh Shell Beads among the Neutral and their Ancestors / William A. Fox Life's Immortal Spell: Wampum among the Iroquois / George R. Hamell Changes in the use of Shell Beads for Honoring the Dead in Aboriginal Central California / Randall Milliken, James Bennyhoff and Tom Jackson Microdrills and Mississippian Beads / Melody Pope Shell Ornaments Among the Five Nations Iroquois / Peter P. Pratt And Introduction to Archaeological Shell Beads from the Mediterranean Basin / David S. Reese Shell Ornament Production at Teotihuacan, Mexico / Margaret H. Turner.…