Not Just for Show : The Archaeology of Beads, Beadwork, and Personal Ornaments.

Frontcover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1 Introduction: The Archaeology of Beads,Beadwork and Personal Ornaments -- Part 1 Socio-Cultural Reflections -- 2 Traditions and Change in Scaphopod Shell Beads in Northern Australia from the Pleistocene to the Recent Past -- 3 Magdalenian "Beadwork Time" in the Paris Basin (France): Correlation between Personal Ornaments and the Function of Archaeological Sites -- 4 Personal Adornment and Personhood among the Last Mesolithic Foragers of the Danube Gorges in the Central Balkans and Beyond -- 5 Ornamental Shell Beads as Markers of Exchange in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B of the Southern Levant -- 6 Games, Exchange, and Stone: Hunter-Gatherer Beads at Home -- Part 2 Audio and Visual Social Cues -- 7 The Natufian Audio-Visual Bone Pendants from Hayonim Cave -- 8 Bead Biographies from Neolithic Burial Contexts: Contributions from the Microscope -- 9 The Tutankhamun Beadwork: An Introduction to Archaeological Beadwork Analysis -- Part 3 Methodological Approaches -- 10 A Mother-of-Pearl Shell Pendant from Nexpa, Morelos -- 11 Detailing the Bead-Maker: Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) of Steatite Disk Beads from Prehistoric Napa Valley, California -- Part 4 Experimentation and Technology -- 12 Experimental Replication of Stone, Bone and Shell Beads from Early Neolithic Sites in Southeast Europe -- 13 The Reproduction of Small Prehistoric Tusk Shell Beads.

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