Abstract
French colonial sites and French contact Native American sites in the Louisiana colony are considered in an attempt to further refine bead chronology. Research is almost to the point where bead introductions can be assigned to particular decades. Such tight dating is one of the ultimate goals of bead chronology. If this goal is reached, we can date undocumented contact period sites, or perhaps even individual features on sites of long occupation.
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Smith, M.T. Eighteenth-century glass beads in the french colonial trade. Hist Arch 36, 55–61 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03374338
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