Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology |
Editors | Claire Smith |
Place of Publication | Netherlands |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 1-7 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319517261 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 25 May 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |
Abstract
The study of glass trade beads from various archaeological contexts, including contact and post-contact sites in North America, has been constructive in both advancing analytical methods and also in understanding past cultural entanglements (Hancock 2013); nonetheless, corresponding finds and reported studies from Australian Indigenous site contexts – such as rock-shelters and middens – are comparatively rare, occurring in reported quantities numbering less than 300 to date, and are largely constrained to western Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory (NT)