Originally Posted by kaywoodie
Originally Posted by Cinch
Originally Posted by kaywoodie
Originally Posted by rockinbbar
Originally Posted by Cinch
Anyone ever found any Indian trade beads?


Yes. Found a few when I was a kid. Both blue.

Found a primitive turquoise ground flat bead as well. Found most of them in or around red ant beds.


Red ant beds were the prime area for finding trade beads. When I was a small kid (and dad was still a member of the old Texas archaeological society) we were gifted 15 gallons of ant mound dirt. We found a bead or two.

While I was doing volunteer archaeological work at Presidio Los Ades state historical site at Robeline Louisiana we wet screened all the dirt from the test pits. We found lots of beads here, by this method! All basic Venetian glass beads.


I heard you need to do it on a cold morning to avoid any angry confrontation with the ants...
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laugh !!!


Those beads are sweet. What is the fire ant connection? I have images of some poor bastard tied to a stake...but doubt the colony stays put that long. I don' think those trade beads had any widespread use up here, although my hunting techniques would not turn up many...tend to move fast through plowed fields after the first heavy rain.

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