Glass beads have been produced and traded for millennia all over the world for use as
everyday items of adornment, ceremonial costumes or objects of barter. The preservation of …

Mineral soda–alumina (m-Na–Al) glass has been found across a vast area stretching from
Africa to East Asia. m-Na–Al glass appears around the 5th c. BC and is relatively common …

ABSTRACT Wood, M. 2012. Interconnections. Glass beads and trade in southern and
eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean–7th to 16th centuries AD. Department of Archaeology …

Three-hundred-and-sixty glass beads from 19 archaeological sites in southern Africa dating
between about the 8th and 16th centuries AD were analyzed using LA-ICP-MS, determining …

The occurrence of similar glass beads at archaeological sites in Africa and Asia bears
witness to the trade relationship between the two continents. This paper reports elemental …

Past research on Madagascar indicates that village communities were established about AD
500 by people of both Indonesian and East African heritage. Evidence of earlier visits is …

The elemental analysis via laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry
(LA-ICP-MS) of ancient glass beads from archaeological sites located in Kenya, Tanzania …

Many tens of thousands of glass beads have been recovered from well-dated 8 th to 16 th
century archaeological sites in southern Africa, making it possible to develop a temporally …

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 …

A comparison between the compositions determined by laser ablation-inductively coupled
plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) from two different laboratories on 52 ancient beads …