Beads, beadwork, and personal ornaments are made of diverse materials such as shell, bone, stones, minerals, and composite materials. Their exploration from geographical and chronological settings around the world offers a glimpse at some of the cutting edge research within the fast growing field of personal ornaments in humanities' past. Recent studies are based on a variety of analytical procedures that highlight humankind's technological advances, exchange networks, mortuary practices, and symbol-laden beliefs. Papers discuss the social narratives behind bead and beadwork manufacture, use and disposal; the way beads work visually, audibly and even tactilely to cue wearers and audience to their social message(s). Understanding the entangled social and technical aspects of beads require a broad spectrum of technical and methodological approaches including the identification of the sources for the raw material of beads. These scientific approaches are also combined in some instances with experimentation to clarify the manner in which beads were produced and used in past societies.
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Covering a wide range of topics, Not Just for Show will be a valuable addition to the research library of anyone interested in beads and beadwork. Available in hard cover as well as an ebook, it is highly recommended. * BEADS *
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Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer is an associate of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University and collections manager for palaeontology at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University. She is a zooarchaeologist specialising in molluscs from archaeological sites. Clive Bonsall is Professor of Early Prehistory at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on post-glacial hunting-gathering (Mesolithic) and early farming (Neolithic) societies of Britain and continental Europe. Alice M. Choyke is associate Professor in the Medieval Studies Department at the Central European University, Budapest. She has worked for most of her professional life as a zooarchaeologist specialising in worked osseous materials and especially the impact of raw material choices from prehistoric, proto-historic and historic sites in Europe.
1: The archaeology of beads, beadwork and personal ornaments.
Alice M. Choyke and Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer
PART 1: SOCIO-CULTURAL REFLECTIONS
2. Traditions and change in scaphopod shell beads in northern Australia from the Pleistocene to the recent past.
Jane Balme and Sue O'Connor
3. Magdalenian "beadwork time" in the Paris Basin (France): correlation between personal ornaments and the function of archaeological sites.
Caroline Peschaux, Gregory Debout, Olivier Bignon-Lau And Pierre Bodu
4. Personal adornment and personhood among the Last Mesolithic foragers of the Danube Gorges in the Central Balkans and beyond.
Emanuela Cristiani and Dusan Boric
5. Ornamental Shell Beads as Markers of Exchange in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B of the Southern Levant.
Ashton Spatz
6. Games, Exchange, and Stone: hunter-gatherer beads at home.
Emily Mueller Epstein
PART 2: AUDIO AND VISUAL SOCIAL CUES
7. The Natufian audio-visual bone pendants from Hayonim Cave.
Dana Shaham and Anna Belfer-Cohen
8. Bead Biographies from Neolithic Burial Contexts: Contributions from the Microscope.
Annelou van Gijn
9. The Tutankhamun Beadwork, an Introduction to Archaeological Beadwork Analysis.
Jolanda E. M. F. Bos
PART 3: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
10. A Mother-of-Pearl Shell Pendant from Nexpa, Morelos.
Adrian Velazquez-Castro, Patricia Ochoa-Castillo, Norma Valentin-Maldonado, Belem Zuniga-Arellano
11. Detailing the bead maker: Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) of steatite disk beads from prehistoric Napa Valley, California.
Tsim D. Schneider and Lori D. Hager
12. Exploring Manufacturing Traces and Social Organization using Prehistoric Mortuary Beads in the Salish Sea Region of the Northwest Coast of North America.
David Bilton and Danielle A. Macdonald
