Posted on 04/12/2009 7:38:23 PM PDT by JoeProBono
A cache of 70,000 beads from all over the 17th-century world have been unearthed from Saint Catherines Island, Georgia, a stop along a Spanish trade route between China and the Philippine capital of Manila.
The beads reflect a startling array of shapes, colors, sizes, and materials, hinting at the wide reach of the Spanish Empire in the 17th century, archaeologists report. So far, researchers with an ongoing project funded by the American Museum of Natural History have found roughly 130 different types of beads, some of which include as many as 20,000 samples.
"We also have found perhaps the first evidence of Spanish beadmaking, along with beads from the main centers of Italy, France, and the Netherlands," Lorann Pendleton, director of the museum's archaeology laboratory, said in a statement.
It appears they were very popular with Spanish queens.
Who was it--Joyce Kilmer?--who said of trees, "if you've seen one, you've seen them all"? Same thing with beads. So the Spanish produced 70,000 beads. The Anglo-Saxons only produced one, but theirs was venerable.
Ya reckon there’s anymore injuns around with an island to sell?
I wonder how much these beads would sell for on eBay?
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More than Obama is spending on the stimu-lie.
—groan—
Well played, my FRiend. Well played. (I had to read it three times before I got it, but I’ve only had the one Diet Coke.)
Monk humor. An acquired taste. :-))
Mission accomplished!
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