Ep. 427: The OG of Archaeology
The MeatEater Podcast
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The History of Aspiero Beads
These are 2a 40 glass beads they're made by a process called Aspiero that was developed in Europe. They were always made during historic period and the old world goes back way for but what I'm saying is they were made in a period that was not historic over here yeah these these cultures were still prehistoric in Alaska all right so it's how did they get there? So we figured okay if the Venetians developed this method of making beads I'm not going to go into it but it's very distinctive if you see that, at least originally that had to come from Venice.
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