Hello Austin and thank you so much for offering an educated opinion and giving me a nice link full of reference articles so I can better educate myself about these beautiful treasures. I deeply appreciate the value of the chemical glass analysis to help tell the story of these beads. Science is not perfect, but it gives so much concrete food for thought that really helps steer us down the right road. I am quite used to thinking in these concrete, evidence based terms, having sat in science classrooms for about half of my life! I appreciate the opinion and the teaching that the articles will give :)
peace,
marjorie