The Glass Beads of San Vito de Valdobbiadene: Compositional Analysis of Glass Beads from a Sixteenth-Century CE Italian Factory

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Twenty Years of Archaeological Science at the Field Museum’s Elemental Analysis Facility" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Despite being the center of European glass bead production during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries CE, very few elemental analyses have ever been conducted on glass beads recovered from known production sites in Murano/Venice. Here we present LA-ICP-MS data on sixteenth-century Nueva Cadiz and seven-layer chevron beads recovered from the site of San Vito de Valdobbiadene, a bead finishing location where glass canes produced in Murano were finished by faceting, using the waterpower of the nearby Piave River. These data provide a new, comparative baseline for the composition of Venetian glass beads produced during the mid-sixteenth century.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Twenty Years of Archaeological Science at the Field Museum’s Elemental Analysis Facility   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37994.0