Bead crafting is time consuming and used lightning whelk and other species of shells brought from the eastern Gulf of Mexico to bead workshops at Cahokia. Tens of thousands of shell beads were made and deposited. Using ethnographic analogy from stone age bead crafting societies, along with time estimates of bead crafting, we examine bead crafting at Greater Cahokia as well as other Mississippian sites and conclude that bead crafting was a specialized, subsidized activity.
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