Glass bead trade in Northeast Africa : the evidence from Meroitic and post-Meroitic Nubia  Glass Bead Trade in Northeast Africa: The Evidence from Meroitic and Post-Meroitic Nubia 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2332590B

  Author(s)

  Then-Obluska, Joanna

  City

  Warszawa 

  Country

  Poland 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9788323538998 

  Date of Publication

  2019 

  Publisher

  University of Warsaw Press  

  Cover Type

  Soft cover 

  Pages

  315 

  Series

  PAM Monographs 10

  Subject

  Fine Arts / Architecture / Photography

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Then-Obłuska, Joanna

  Publisher

  University of Warsaw Press  

• Description

  Glass Bead Trade in Northeast Africa: The Evidence from Meroitic and Post-Meroitic Nubia Strings of colorful glass beads were a popular commodity traded throughout ancient Nubia in the earlier half of the first millennium AD. Combining macroscopic examination with laboratory analyses, the author breaks new ground in Nubian studies, establishing diagnostic markers for a study of trading markets and broader economic trends in Meroitic and post-Meroitic Nubia. Archaeometric results, lucidly presented and discussed, identify the origins of the glass from which the beads under investigation were made.