Far east amazonite bead
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Posted by: redmountain Post Reply
08/21/2015, 06:14:55

Some of these beads I have owned for over ten years.
they are all from north china like innermogolia or northeast 3 provinces.
Only few excavation report covers these kind of ancient ornaments.
what is sure about these amazonite beads is they were belong to more than one nomad? or people who lived in the fareast region during 1000B.C.E-100A.D. They could be the people of Hun,Donghu,shanrong,xianbei,etc who has ever been documented living within the region in the chinese official historical records.

Not to long ago I found that african people use almost the same kind of amazonite beads and a question came to me that are the amazonite material transported and sold to far east from outside or just found locally ? Is there any relations between the amazonite beads of far east and those of africa?

Anyway they are all beautiful ancient ornaments and give us the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the glory of their original owner.


Enjoy and forgive me for the poor pic.

R.M.
Peking

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