Unique Bronze Age Beads Found in Iberia - Archaeology Magazine

Unique Bronze Age Beads Found in Iberia - Archaeology Magazine

Stereomicroscope images of blue beads, including (c.) the Egyptian blue bead ALICANTE, SPAIN—According to a report in La Brújula Verde, the discovery of more than a dozen glass beads that were imported from Central Europe, Egypt, and the Near East at three sites in southeastern Spain has provided new evidence of far-reaching trade networks during the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1650–1100 B.C.). Beginning in the sixteenth century B.C., the glass beads f…