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Unpacking the Bead: Exploring a Glass Bead Assemblage from Mission Santa Cruz, California, Using LA–ICP–MS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2021

Danielle L. Dadiego Open the ORCID record for Danielle L. Dadiego [Opens in a new window] ,
Alyssa Gelinas  and
Tsim D. Schneider
Danielle L. Dadiego*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA95064, USA
Alyssa Gelinas
Affiliation:
Albion Environmental, 1414 Soquel Avenue, Suite 205, Santa Cruz, CA95062, USA
Tsim D. Schneider
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA95064, USA
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(ddadiego@ucsc.edu, corresponding author)
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Abstract

This report focuses on the morphometric and elemental analysis of glass beads collected from an adobe structure (CA-SCR-217H-T) at Mission Santa Cruz, which operated between 1791 and the 1830s in the colonial province of Alta (upper) California. Previous chemical research established a chronological framework for opacified beads collected from sites in Canada, the Great Lakes region, and the southeastern United States. Testing the viability of this chronological framework for California, we analyzed 100 white glass beads using a conventional typology and laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)—the first application of LA-ICP-MS to a California mission. We present the results of the LA-ICP-MS study and then briefly comment on the potential for LA-ICP-MS to refine chronologies associated with colonial missions and other postcontact sites.

Este informe se centra en el análisis morfométrico y elemental de cuentas de vidrio recolectadas de una estructura de adobe en la Misión Santa Cruz (CA-SCR-217H-T), que funcionó en California entre 1791 y 1830. Previas investigaciones químicas establecieron un marco cronológico para los abalorios opacificados recogidos en Canadá, la regiónde los Grandes Lagos, y el sureste de los Estados Unidos. Al probar la viabilidad de este marco cronológico para California, analizamos 100 cuentas de vidrio blanco utilizando una tipología convencional de extracción por láser y espectrometría de masas con fuente de ionización de plasma acoplado inductivamente (LA-ICP-MS)—la primera aplicación de LA-ICP-MS a una misión de California. Presentamos los resultados del estudio LA-ICP-MS y luego discutimos brevemente su potencial para refinar las cronologías asociadas con las misiones coloniales y otros sitios posteriores al contacto.

Keywords

CaliforniaarchaeometryLA-ICP-MSglass beadscolonial mission supplychronologyCaliforniaarchaeometríaLA-ICP-MScuentas de vidriosuministro de misión colonialcronología
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Report
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American Antiquity , Volume 86 , Issue 2 , April 2021 , pp. 413 - 424
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Archaeology

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