Detroit - Inside an old building adorned with a bright eye-catching mural made of beads on Detroit’s west side is a man who tells stories about the history of African beads. Olayami Dabls, 73, of ...

African Waist Beads come in various dimensions and also colors. They likewise vary in style. There are beads that are rounded, hexagonal, cuneate, and several others. The African languages use quite ...

Tiny glass beads discovered in mountain caves about 25 miles from the shores of Lake Malawi in eastern-central Africa provide evidence that European trade in the continent’s hinterland was built on ...

The chemical composition of glass beads and their morphological characteristics can reveal where they come from. Archaeologists analyzed glass beads found at rural sites in Mali and Senegal from ...

Olayami Dabls, founder of Detroit’s MBAD African Bead Museum, is the Kresge Eminent Artist for 2022. The award, presented by the Kresge Foundation, includes $50,000 in recognition of lifetime ...

Nairobi — The oldest known African bead is more than 12,000 years old and was found in the Kalahari Desert, but South African beads may be up to 75,000 years old. Almost equally old beads are found in ...

"This thesis takes a bead's eye view of eastern Africa and Indian Ocean trade, focusing particularly on the trade and trade networks that connected southern Africa to the rest of the world. It also ...

Maasai women from Laikipia County showcase beaded products in Nanyuki town after the county government opened a weekly Ushanga Day for women in the interior northern Laikipia to showcase the products.

Thousands of years before Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, tiny beads helped humans make social connections. A decade-long study of more than 1,500 beads made from ostrich eggshells and found across ...

ARLINGTON, Va.- Perforated shells found at South Africa's Blombos Cave appear to have been strung as beads about 75,000 years ago-making them 30,000 years older than any previously identified personal ...