Social Significance of Glass Beads at San Luis de Talimali (8Le4)

Summary

This is an abstract from the "First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

How do the number and type of glass beads found in the structure recovered from FSU’s 2018 field school at San Luis de Talimali (8Le4) differ from other Spanish living structures on the site? And what do these beads (especially the special decorated types, such as Cornaline d’Aleppo or striped beads) tell us about the social status and wealth of the people who lived there? Glass beads, which were forms of personal adornment especially in Spanish La Florida, tell archaeologists more about both the Spanish and the Apalachee indigenous to the area. This study will focus on the Spanish and their lifestyle in San Luis—were their glass beads markers of status and did they differ between Spanish households? In order to answer this research question, the glass beads recovered from San Luis during the 2018 field season will be compared with glass beads from earlier excavations. Spatial distribution, bead type, and the number of decorated glass beads will be the main focus of research and will concentrate on the beads excavated from a newly recovered domestic structure in the Spanish village.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• First Floridians to La Florida: Recent FSU Investigations   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 25784