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Vol. 8/9 (1996-1997)

Beads, Pendants and Buttons from Early Historic Creek Contexts at the Tarver Sites, Georgia

  • Thomas J. Pluckhahn
Submitted
January 27, 2025
Published
1996-01-01

Abstract

Recent excavations conducted on historic Creek Indian components at the Tarver (9JO6) and Little Tarver (9JO198) sites in central Georgia produced an extensive collection of European trade material, including a large sample of glass and lapidary beads, pendants and buttons. The bead collection is significant for its size, as well as the fact that virtually all of the material was recovered from undisturbed and tightly dated burial contexts attributable to the relatively brief period between about 1695 and 1715.