Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The archaeology of beads, beadwork and personal ornaments / Alice M. Choyke and Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer
  • Traditions and change in Scaphopod shell beads in Northern Australia from the Pleistocene to the recent past / Jane Balme and Sue O'Connor
  • Magdalenian "beadwork time" in the Paris Basin (France): correlation between personal ornaments and the function of archaeological sites / Caroline Peschaux, Grégory Debout, Olivier Bignon-Lau and Pierre Bodu
  • Personal adornment and personhood among the last Mesolithic foragers of the Danube Gorges in the Central Balkans and beyond / Emanuela Cristiani and Dus̆an Borić
  • Ornamental shell beads as markers of exchange in the pre-pottery Neolithic B of the Southern Levant / Ashton J. Spatz
  • Games, exchange, and stone: hunter-gatherer beads at home / Emily Mueller Epstein
  • The Natufian audio-visual bone pendants from Hayonim Cave / Dana Shaham and Anna Belfer-Cohen
  • Bead biographies from Neolithic burial contexts: contributions from the microscope / Annelou van Gijn
  • The Tutankhamun beadwork: an introduction to archaeological beadwork analysis / Jolanda E.M.F. Bos
  • A mother-of-pearl shell pendant from Nexpa, Morelos / Adrián Velázquez-Castro, Patricia Ochoa-Castillo, Norma Valentín-Maldonado, and Belem Zúñiga-Arellano
  • Detailing the bead-maker: reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) of Steatite disk beads from prehistoric Napa Valley, California / Tsim D. Schneider and Lori D. Hager
  • Experimental replication of stone, bone and shell beads from early Neolithic sites in Southeast Europe / Maria Gurova and Clive Bonsall
  • The reproduction of small prehistoric tusk shell beads / Greg Campbell.