Explore: Shell Beads

cone shells, but from other shells, or even from plastic. In addition, some strings of beads are currently sold that are made from cone shells, but the

form of shell jewelry is necklaces that are composed of large numbers of beads, where each individual bead is the whole (but often drilled) shell of a small

commodity exchange, the shells having use-value as body ornamentation. The distinction between beads as commodities and beads as money has been the subject

channeled whelk shell and white and purple beads made from the quahog or Western North Atlantic hard-shelled clam. In New York, wampum beads have been discovered

shell bead collection, that the beads may have been around since the Late Neolithic period and were later replaced by glass and other inorganic beads

stringing. Beads range in size from under 1 mm to over 1 cm in diameter. Beads represent some of the earliest forms of jewellery, with a pair of beads made

of shell beads, which were used as a form of currency and status. Some examples of these variant styles include; needle-drilled disks, lipped beads, cupped

70 marine shell beads of the sea snail species Nassarius kraussianus have been found in the M1 and Upper M2 phases at Blombos Cave. The beads are exclusively

South Africa has yielded a number of beads dating from significantly prior to 50,000 years ago, and shell beads dating to about 75,000 years ago have

catch fish and began making beads from shells of the marine olive snail (Callianax biplicata). The name Chumash means "bead maker" or "seashell people"