Despite the pandemic and all that it did to upset various schedules, the 2020 issue of BEADS: Journal of the Society of Bead Researchers is at the printers and should be ready for distribution in a few days. It contains articles on a variety of subjects that we hope will be of interest to a wide range of collectors, researchers, curators, and other bead enthusiasts.

If you were a member of the Society in 2020, you will automatically receive a copy. If you were not, you can still join for 2020 ($25 US for North America; $35 US for other continents). Just visit: https://www.beadresearch.org/membership/

You may also just purchase the issue but then you will not receive the two digital Bead Forums for 2020 which contain several short articles as well as a substantial one on fully beadwoven tabbed bags on the Columbia River Plateau by Alice Scherer.

CONTENTS

The Large Glass Beads of Leech Fibulae from Iron Age Necropoli in Northern Italy
LEONIE C. KOCH

Ancient Egyptian Sulfur Beads
KYOKO YAMAHANA and YASUNOBU AKIYAMA

Barikot Beads and Gandharan Art Ornaments: A Critical Study of Adornment Practices during the Kushana Period of Pakistan
MUBARIZ AHMED RABBANI

The Blue Beads of St. Eustatius: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Oral History
FELICIA FRICKE and PARDIS ZAHEDI

Furnace-Wound Glass Bead Production at Schwarzenberg am Böhmerwald, Upper Austria
KINGA TARCSAY, translated by KARLIS KARKLINS

The Beads from an 18th-century Acadian Site, Prince Edward Island, Canada
HELEN KRISTMANSON, ERIN MONTGOMERY, KARLIS KARKLINS, and ADELPHINE BONNEAU

A New Way to Study Ancient Bead Workshop Traditions: Shape Analysis Using Elliptical Fourier Transforms
GEOFFREY E. LUDVIK, THOMAS J. DOBBINS, and J. MARK KENOYER

Frit-Core Beads: An Update
KARLIS KARKLINS

BOOK REVIEWS

Emma L. Baysal: Personal Ornaments in Prehistory: An Exploration of Body Augmentation from the Palaeolithic to the Early Bronze Age
JOANNA THEN-OBŁUSKA

Heidi Munan and Anita MacGillivray (eds.): Journal: Borneo International Beads Conference 2019
BARBARA LEIGH

Richard Green: Gifts of Sun and Stars. Souvenirs of the North American Northeast
ELEANOR HOUGHTON

Douglas Clark: Oneida Glass Trade Bead Chronology
JAMES W. BRADLEY