A Contribution to the Problem of Akori Beads
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8979634 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Milan Kalous (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1966 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-66 |
| Publication date | 1966-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853700006071 |
| OpenAlex | W2129488110 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 7 |
The problem of akori beads consists above all in the question of their [organic or inorganic] composition. If, according to the ‘water theory’, akori were some kind of corals, then how to explain their findings in old graves, where they remained in good state of preservation after the human bones decayed? In the present stage of research the following explanation might be offered: the term of ‘akori’ served for the designation of cylindrical and oval beads of varying composition and colour, made maybe of some now unknown kind of coral, but certainly also of stone or glass; perhaps the akori recovered from the sea-shores and rivers were not really corals but worked jewels from the corpses of those buried in the water or offerings to the sea-deity Olokun. The discovery in Ife of large production of glass beads seems to support this
Archaeology · Art · Composition (language · Coral · Geography · Literature · Shore · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Geology · History · Oceanography
Trans-Saharan contacts and the Iron Age in West Africa
North Africa in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, 323 BC to AD 305
The legacy of prehistory
The Sahara and the Sudan from the Arab conquest of the Maghrib to the rise of the Almoravids
The Cambridge History of Africa
Power, Status, and the Archaeology of the Atlantic Experience in Peki, Ghana
Two Chemical Groups of Dichroic Glass Beads from West Africa
Of glass, stone, shell, and metal
African Studies in Czechoslovakia
Ghana's Glass Beadmaking Arts in Transcultural Dialogues
Frobenius, Willett and Ife
Akorite
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1968 - 2024 (57) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |