Proceedings of the 1986 Shell Bead Conference : selected papers

Shell Bead Conference, Charles F. Hayes, Lynn Ceci, Connie Cox Bodner, Rochester Museum and Science Center Research Division

Published by Research Division of the Rochester Museum and Science Center, 1988

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Proceedings of the 1986 Shell Bead Conference : selected papers
• Publisher: Research Division of the Rochester Museum and Science Center
• Publication Date: 1988
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
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