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Paper 2
Dating the Chickasaw Beads
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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
Appreciation
Paper 2 Figures
Paper 2 Tables
Paper 2 References
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This paper will graphically present the associations among the glass bead types/varieties. The accuracy of that analysis depends upon having a large enough feature sample to represent the bead type/variety. Table 3 provides information about the features relative to the number of exclusive and single features. At this point, major bead types/varieties will be differentiated from the remaining, or minor features. For the sake of discussion, major bead types/varieties are those that occurred in at least eighteen features.
Eleven bead types/varieties meet this definition. Each major bead type/variety will be graphed with hope of demonstrating a major glass bead sequence that may be dated.
The object of the glass bead sequence is to develop a chronology. Two key dates are needed for the chronology, a start date for sustained trade and a finish date or the date when the villages were abandoned.
Our interest is the start of trade. Paper 1 established a sustained trade date of 1690. That was the date selected when the Carolina plantation owners/slavers could sustain a trade. Paper 1 noted that the Chickasaw started leaving their villages in 1797, which were almost abandoned by 1805. For use in this paper, the sustained date of trade will be assumed as 1690 and the abandonment of the villages as 1800. These dates will serve to focus the start and stop of our bead chronology.
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