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Dating the Chickasaw Beads

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Glass Bead Descriptions

Glass Bead Database

Glass Bead Sequence
A Beginning

Major Bead Types/Varieties
Glass Bead Chronology - Start/Finish

Glass Bead Sequence
Major Bead Fields

Glass Bead Sequence
Minor Bead Fields

Glass Bead Sequence
Major & Minor Glass Bead Fields

Glass Bead Chronology
An End, A Beginning

Glass Bead Chronology
Dating

Other Artifacts - Dating

Beads as Heirlooms

Bead Dating Conclusions

Other Factors
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Glass Bead Sequence - Major and Minor Glass Bead Fields

Table 4 provides a sequence of the major and minor glass beads. Note that each row in the table represents a time slot in the sequence. The oldest beads in the sequence are the minor beads IB/IIIB XL, IA/IIIA VL 1, IIIA1, IVB (IVA2) and IA/IIIA XL which are not distinguishable in time due to the relatively low number of features. Time increases with each successive row in the table until the latest sequenced beads, WIB Wrap, IF/IIIF and IIIA, end the sequence.

Table 4 Major/Minor Bead Sequence

Several other minor bead type/varieties are combined within rows (time slots) as their graphed signatures make distinction difficult - IIJ, WIA L, and WIIIC VL; IA/IIIA VL 2 and IB/IIIB VL; and IF/IIIF, WIB Wrap and IIIA. The major bead fields IIA1/IVA1 and IIA/IVA Other are grouped together as their signatures are almost identical. Minor bead WIIIC was tabbed as a temporal equal to WIA VL/XL, based on the signature of WIIIC, but could predate WIA VL/XL.

Just as with the major bead sequence, the minor beads demonstrate a drawn bead pattern followed by mandrels with a mix of both in the silver period.

Dating the major bead sequence follows.