A total of 1496 investigated colourless glass analyses have been collected with the aim of
achieving a clear geographical, typological, chronological and compositional overview on …

The ancient glass industry changed dramatically towards the end of the first millennium. The
Roman glassmaking tradition of mineral soda glass was increasingly supplanted by the use …

This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in
North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of …

Recent archaeological excavations at the seventh-to tenth-century CE sites of Unguja Ukuu
and Fukuchani on Zanzibar Island have produced large numbers of glass beads that shed …

One hundred and forty-one glass fragments from medieval Ciudad de Vascos (Toledo,
Spain) were analysed by laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA …

This paper presents results of an interdisciplinary study of thirty-five bead artifacts found at
Quseir port sites and presently stored in the Oriental Institute Museum at the University of …

The trade of glass beads has long been assumed to have been under Islamic dominance
during the early centuries following the Arab conquest of the Middle East, judged by the …

Along with Ghana, Gawgaw (Gao) was an important regional trading polity mentioned by
Arab chroniclers in the later first millennium CE. In the later tenth century, al-Muhallabi wrote …

Twenty‐six samples from domestic assemblages of 9th–12th century C órdoba were
subjected to electron microprobe analysis. The results reveal two main compositional types …

Excavations at several archaeological sites in and around Gao have resulted in the recovery
of thousands of glass beads presumed to have been acquired from glass bead-producing …