Neo-Babylonian hematite bead, dated circa 8th to 7th century BCE The 2cm long bead is carved In the form of a frog with bulging eyes and has a hand drilled horizontal hole for threading

Neo-Babylonian hematite bead, dated circa 8th to 7th century BCE

The 2cm long bead is carved In the form of a frog with bulging eyes and has a hand drilled horizontal hole for threading

Sold at auction by Christies, December 2014

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Sumerian lapis lazuli and gold bead necklace, dated circa late 3rd to early 2nd millennium BCE Composed of twenty-seven ribbed melon-shaped lapis lazuli beads, interspersed with smaller gold melon beads; restrung with a modern hook and loop closure The necklace measures 50.8 cm long and was sold at auction by Christies in December 2014

Sumerian lapis lazuli & gold bead necklace, dated circa late 3rdC to early 2ndC BCE

The necklace measures 50.8 cm long & was sold at auction by Christies in December 2014

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Euripides' Medea is tearing all the feels out of me this week. And then I happen upon this stunning necklace.

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Roman mosaic glass bead necklace, dated circa 1st Century CE Composed of thirty-two beads in bright colours ~ spherical, disc-shaped, rectangular and drop-shaped, seventeen with faces, three encircled by lotus flowers, two with petalled flowers, two with Nilotic birds in profile, one millefiori bead, and eight with geometric designs, on a green, white, red or blue ground, interspersed with rectangular opaque orange glass beads and small, spherical blue and white millefiori beads The necklace measures 82cm long and has been restrung with a modern hook-and-loop closure Sold at auction by Christies, December 2007

Roman mosaic glass bead necklace, dated circa 1st Century CE

The necklace measures 82cm long and has been restrung with a modern hook-and-loop closure

Sold at auction by Christies, December 2007

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Sumerian gold earring with faience and lapis-lazuli beads Dated to the late 4th millenium BCE, Ur Sold at auction through Invaluable at the Hôtel des Ventes de Monte-Carlo, July 17, 2022

Sumerian gold earring with faience and lapis-lazuli beads

Dated to the late 4th millenium BCE, Ur

Sold at auction through Invaluable at the Hôtel des Ventes de Monte-Carlo,
July 17, 2022

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Sunday Beady Eye Candy : Neolithic Beads from China from a selection pinned with provenance to our Sweepings board on Pinterest, tap the Linktree in our profile or the link in-post

Sunday Beady Eye Candy : Neolithic Beads from China

from a selection pinned with provenance to our Sweepings board on Pinterest

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As a beader, I'm always enchanted by the deep history of the craft. #beads #ancientbeads

I also find the challenge of interpretation interesting as evidenced by the original understanding of the piece here bit.ly/4prnvkb

Sunday Beady Eye Candy : Ancient Carved Carnelian from a selection pinned with provenance to our Sweepings board on Pinterest, tap the Linktree in our profile or the link in-post

Sunday Beady Eye Candy : Ancient Carved Carnelian

from a selection pinned with provenance to our Sweepings board on Pinterest

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The World’s Oldest Adornment - Dear June Collectibles Long before written language, coins, or organized trade networks, humans were stringing beads. Its history stretches back thousands of years.

Before coins or writing, humans wore shells. Discover the 75,000-year-old beads that marked identity, status, and belonging.
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Sunday Beady Eye Candy ~ Parthian Agate Beads from Ancient Rome pinned with provenance to our Sweepings board on Pinterest, tap the Linktree in our profile or the link in-post #SundayBeadyEyeCandy #BeadyEyeCandy #BeadSocietyGB #Beads #HistoryOfBeads #AncientBeads #AncientRome #Parthia #AgateBeads #BeadedSky

Sunday Beady Eye Candy ~ Parthian Agate Beads from Ancient Rome

pinned with provenance to our Sweepings board on Pinterest

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LBV Magazine (@labrujulaverde.bsky.social) The Mystery of the Women Buried Simultaneously with More Than 270,000 Beads Made from Seashells, Stone, and Bone 4,900 Years Ago In the southwest of Spain, at the Montelirio tholos burial site (built…

LBV Magazine: "The Mystery of the Women Buried Simultaneously with More Than 270,000 Beads Made from Seashells, Stone, and Bone 4,900 Years Ago In the southwest of Spain"

#AncientBeads #beaders

A bunch of my handmade beads, high-fired stoneware and porcelain.
Starry Road Studio.

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Collection of Sumerian lapis lazuli beads from Mesopotamia, dated circa late 3rd Millennium BCE and later Sold at auction by Bonhams, May 2003, London Source : photo and text : bonhams.com

Collection of Sumerian lapis lazuli beads from Mesopotamia, dated circa late 3rd Millennium BCE and later

Sold at auction by Bonhams, May 2003, London

Source : photo and text : bonhams.com

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What a kiln full of beads looks like lol. There were two full shelves of these. All fired to cone 6 (2,200°F (1,200°C).

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Ceramic art and sketches, previous work

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Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order. 4/20

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The use wear experiments showed that the Boodie Cave beads were strung with their narrower apical ends and wide ends alternating against each other, rather than nested in concatenated style as seen in historical examples.

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Late Pleistocene scaphopod beads from Boodie Cave and deep time traditions of personal ornamentation in northwest Australia Tubular segments of Scaphopoda (tusk shell) were traditionally used by Aboriginal peoples in the manufacture of ornate bead necklaces across northwest Australia. Twenty-seven scaphopod shell beads ...

Free access paper can be bound here doi.org/10.1080/0312...

#australianarchaeology #ancientbeads #shellbeads #symbolicbeahaviour #latepleistocene