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Bead Typology

The Development of a Concept

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Pioneers in Historical Archaeology

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The drawings of extinct animals by Charles Knight which were published in the National Geographic, and the rows of jars filled with various colors of copper sulfate in my father’s office on the campus of Oregon State College were probably the most influential factors on my eventual career during the first eight years of my life in Corvallis, Oregon.

Glass beads are not my major research interest, though I have maintained what is now a twenty-year interest in glass trade beads. Roderick Sprague

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Sprague, R. (1994). Bead Typology. In: South, S. (eds) Pioneers in Historical Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0955-8_7

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