BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers was initiated in 1989 to encourage and publish scholarly research on beads and beadwork of all materials and periods from around the world. Researchers are invited to submit scholarly articles on topics that involve beads, especially from an archaeological or ethnographic context. [More]
Full text is available for volumes one (1989) through six (1994) and select others. Titles, tables of contents, and abstracts are available for all volumes (1989-present).
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Current Volume: Volume 34 (2022)
Full Issue
Front Matter
Articles
The Bead Trade during the Late Third and Second Millennia BC at the Island of Failaka, Kuwait, Upper Persian Gulf
Ann Andersson
Heirloom Beads among the Dayak of Borneo
Barbie Campbell Cole
Peake, Wampum, or Sewant? An Analysis of Shell Bead Terminology in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake
Rebecca J. Webster
Northwest Cambodia and the Mekong Interaction Sphere: Glass and Stone Beads from Lovea, Prei Khmeng, and Sophy
Alison Carter, Dougald O'Reilly, Louise Shewan, and Laure Dussubieux
The Beads of Athribis, Middle Egypt: an Overview after 10 Years Excavation
Patricia Elsner and Marcus Müller
End Matter
Officers for 2022
- President:
- Jonathan M. Kenoyer
- Secretary/Treasurer
- Alice Scherer
- Editor
- Karlis Karklins
Committees
Editorial Advisory
- Laurie Burgess, chair
- Gregory Waselkov
- Marvin T. Smith
Publications
- Karlis Karklins, chair
- Paul Huey
- Jeffrey M. Mitchem