Are There Any French Glass Beads In Quebec (16th and 17th Centuries)?
Author(s): adelphine bonneau; Reginald Auger; Bernard Gratuze; Jean-François Moreau
Year: 2018
Summary
Hundreds of pounds of glass beads were imported among other goods by French settlers during the historical period. Those glass beads are found on several contexts from trading posts to Jesuits houses; alone or on objects: chaplets, bracelets, cloths. Although those beads were imported by French people, were they manufactured in France? If not, where do they come from? Is there a difference between beads found in trading posts and those from French settlements (settler use)? Is it possible to define a French "selection" of beads?
Nowadays, thousands of these beads are found on archaeological sites. As a starting point, beads from Saguenay-Lake-St-John trading posts, ruled through French and English periods, from the Jesuits house at La Prairie, and from St Louis’ fort and castles were studied using typology and chemical analysis. Data were compared with glass beads from two glass workshops in Europe and a Venetian ship (Gnalic, 1583).
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Are There Any French Glass Beads In Quebec (16th and 17th Centuries)?. adelphine bonneau, Reginald Auger, Bernard Gratuze, Jean-François Moreau. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441840)
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Keywords
General
Archaeometry
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Glass Beads
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trade networks
Geographic Keywords
Canada
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North America
Temporal Keywords
16th and 17th centuries
Spatial Coverage
min long: -141.003; min lat: 41.684 ; max long: -52.617; max lat: 83.113 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 210