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, Grégory 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 Dušan Borić
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.
Adrián Velázquez-Castro, Patricia Ochoa-Castillo, Norma
Valentín-Maldonado, Belem Zúñiga-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
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.
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.
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