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DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma K Derry.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Opening the Vault: What Collections Can Say About Jamestown’s Global Trade Network", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Jamestown Rediscovery collection contains 150 lapidary beads, including crystal quartz, chalcedony, carnelian, agate, amethyst, amber, and jet. Historically produced in regions where raw materials, craftsmen, and infrastructure came together, lapidary beads were transported across vast...