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Contact & Historic · c. 1,500 – 1,750 CE

Contact

Glass beads, gunflints and sheet brass enter Indigenous exchange networks — and are promptly reworked into Indigenous forms. Adoption was selective and creative, not the replacement of one material world by another.

Date range
1,500 CE – 1,750 CE
Key terms
Trade beads · Gunflints · Tinkling cones · Reworked brass

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