The incredible number of shiny shell beads found in the Montelirio tomb reveal an ancient economy able to support large-scale ...

The term was co-opted by New England colonists as a shortening for the Wampanoag and or Narragansett word wampumpeag, which roughly translates to string of white shell beads.

More than 270,000 delicate shell beads recovered from the nearly 5,000-year-old "Ivory Lady" tomb in Spain represent the largest collection of beads ever found in the world, according to ...

Archaeologists investigating a roughly 5,000-year-old tomb in southwestern Spain say the women laid to rest there were buried with a staggering number of white beads that would have been threaded ...

Allen Hazard of the Narragansett tribe has been making wampum, a purple and white bead, from quahogs, or hard-shell clams, for the past 40 years.

It includes the white shell beads hand fashioned from the North Atlantic channeled whelk shell and the white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam. Murray ...

The shell of the threeline mudsnail has a spindle shape, as well as distinct lines and ribs that give a bead-like texture. Size: up to 20 mm; very common. Don't Edit ...

Archaeologists investigating a roughly 5,000-year-old tomb in southwestern Spain say the women laid to rest there were buried with a staggering number of white beads that would have been threaded ...

More than 270,000 delicate shell beads recovered from the nearly 5,000-year-old "Ivory Lady" tomb in Spain represent the largest collection of beads ever found in the world, according to ...