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Issue 63, Autumn 2013, Society Of Bead Researchers

The Bead Forum: Newsletter of the Society of Bead Researchers

Deterioration and Conservation of Unstable Glass Beads on Native American Objects, by Robin Ohern and Kelly McHugh.

History And Archaeology At Irishtown Bend: Life In A Nineteenth Century Cleveland Irish Community, Taliesin Haugh, Geoffrey Horn, Arvin Mathur, Phillip Wanyerka

Undergraduate Research Posters 2013

To most Clevelanders, the west bank of the Flats brings to mind the bustle of busy nightclubs or the rusting facades of Cleveland’s now fading steel industry. Few people would generally associate this area with archaeology, let alone remember that during the nineteenth century this area was home to one of Cleveland’s earliest and most influential ethnic communities. Known as Irishtown Bend, many Irish immigrants made their way to this close-knit, working class neighborhood of small ramshackle houses crammed closely together along the narrow bluffs of the Cuyahoga River. Most of the arriving Irish immigrants who came to Cleveland beginning …

Issue 62, Spring 2013, Society Of Bead Researchers

The Bead Forum: Newsletter of the Society of Bead Researchers

Seed Beads from a Shipwreck: More Than Pretty Trinkets: Part II in a series of II articles, by Lisa Hopwood.

Depictional Study Of Chariot Use In New Kingdom Egypt, Lisa Sabbahy Dr.

Faculty Book Chapters

The present work is the result of the First International Chariot Conference, jointly organised by the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) and the American University in Cairo (AUC) (30 November to 2 December 2012). The intention of the conference was to make a broad assessment of the current state of knowledge about chariots in Egypt and the Near East, and to provide a forum for discussion.

A wide variety of papers are included, ranging from overviews to more detailed studies focusing on a specific topic. These include philology, iconography, archaeology, engineering, history, and conservation. The book is of interest to …