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DOCUMENT Citation Only Gifford Waters. Lindsay Bloch. Charles Cobb.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Jet was often used in the Spain for religious venera, crosses, and beads for rosaries. At the same time, the material itself was believed to have special properties making it an ideal substance for amulets, such as figas (higas). During the early 16th century the primary location for the production of jet items was controlled by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Evans.

This is an abstract from the "Frontier and Settlement Archaeology" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Michilimackinac is well known as a French and British fur trade entrepôt in what is now northern Michigan. Analysis of personal adornment artifacts from a recently excavated fur trader's household revealed that the assemblage included some artifacts more commonly associated with the Spanish, jet beads and a fan stick fragment. Are these artifacts...