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begin to predominate around this time, including new faceted, tubular, and tiny seed varieties.This quibble actually underlines one of Miller's main points, however: there are many interesting questions about beads that demand an interdisciplinary approach.I would add that little questions about beads -and other types of historical artifacts as well -can open up broader and more compelling issues.As more specific historical data on changing bead sources are developed, archaeologists will be better able to interpret Native trade patterns in the historic period, and to refine the use of bead typologies as a tool for dating sites.These results will enable new work on the effects of European contact on Native Alaskan cultures, social interaction and exchange between indigenous groups, and even patterns of population decline and village abandonment.Early Contact Glass Trade Beads in Alaska is primarily useful as an overview and introduction to a particular area of historical and material culture research.The trade-offs for the monograph's low cost are poor production values, including numerous typos, unusual punctuation, odd type fonts, and really awful printing of the small black and white figures that decorate the margins of the text

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