A Bead Timeline, Volume 1: Prehistory to 1200 CE by James W. Lankton
Soft cover, 97 pages about the size of Ornament Magazine because Robert Liu was invaluable in helping the Bead Society of Greater Washington get it printed as well as taking the photos and writing the Forward
The book documents the physical bead timeline created with beads from Jim Lankton's collection the was exhibited in the Bead Museum in Washington DC and has now moved on to a permanent home at the Peabody Museum in Boston.
Jim wrote the Introduction, the text and the captions
Joyce Diamanti contributed a chapter on Beads, Trade and Cultural Change
Archeologist Jonathan M. (Mark) Kenoyer contributed the article on The Technology of Stone Beads.
If you are interested in the history or beads and don't have Lois Dubin's big History of Beads book with it fold out timeline, you really need this book Maybe you even need this book if you do have Lois'. It a handy reference full of fascinating information about ancient beads.
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