A new study of European beads reveals the “extensive reach” of Native American trade networks in ... of other materials like shell, bone or stone,” researchers said. The beads also played ...

Indigenous Americans played a ... seen as the main drivers of these ancient exchange networks, yet a new analysis of 370-year-old glass beads indicates that Native communities were conducting ...

The ancient village ... According to the study, beads and other objects made from coastal shells in the Gulf were integral to the political economies of Native American chiefdoms in eastern ...

But the research underscores the ethical minefield of studying ancient Native American remains ... 1968 (see ‘Ancient origins’). About 100 stone and bone artefacts, as well as bone fragments ...

Beads of sweat collected on their faces but ... Their mission? To teach Native American history and culture, and keep their millennia-old traditions alive. Cliff Matias, who organized the event ...

They found an ancient artifact →Farmer picks ... adornments of other materials like shell, bone or stone,” researchers said. The beads also played a key role in the establishment of the ...