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• Powder glass beads — The earliest powder glass beads on record were discovered during archaeological excavations at Mapungubwe, in present day Zimbabwe, and dated to 970 1000 CE. In our time, the main area of powder glass bead manufacture is West Africa, most… …   Wikipedia

• Glass beadmaking — The technology for glass beadmaking is among the oldest human arts, dating back 30,000 years (Dubin, 1987). Glass beads have been dated back to at least Roman times. Perhaps the earliest glass like beads were Egyptian faience beads, a form of… …   Wikipedia

• glass — glassless, adj. glasslike, adj. /glas, glahs/, n. 1. a hard, brittle, noncrystalline, more or less transparent substance produced by fusion, usually consisting of mutually dissolved silica and silicates that also contain soda and lime, as in the… …   Universalium

• Glass — /glas, glahs/, n. 1. Carter, 1858 1946, U.S. statesman. 2. Philip, born 1937, U.S. composer. * * * I Solid material, typically a mix of inorganic compounds, usually transparent or translucent, hard, brittle, and impervious to the natural elements …   Universalium

• GLASS — Earliest Times The earliest manufacture of glass does not antedate the late third millennium B.C.E., when the first glass beads were made in Mesopotamia and Egypt. The invention of glass vessel making dates to the mid second millennium B.C.E.,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• glass bead screen — F/A/V screen covered with tiny glass beads, each of which provides a spherically reflective surface …   Audio and video glossary

• GLASS —    Glass results from the heating of a mixture of sand, lime, and sodium carbonate to a very high temperature. When different materials are added to the sand, glass can become transparent, translucent, or colored. While the origins of glass are… …   Historical Dictionary of Architecture

• Glass — This article is about the material. For other uses, see Glass (disambiguation). Moldavite, a natural glass formed by meteorite impact, from Besednice, Bohemia …   Wikipedia

• glass — noun 1 transparent substance ADJECTIVE ▪ clear, coloured/colored, opaque, plain, smoked, tinted ▪ broken ▪ flying …   Collocations dictionary

• Murano beads — are intricate glass beads influenced by Venetian glass artists. Since 1291, the Murano glassmakers have refined technologies such as crystalline glass, enamelled glass (smalto), glass with threads of gold (aventurine), multicoloured glass… …   Wikipedia

• Anglo-Saxon glass — has been found across England during archaeological excavations of both settlement and cemetery sites. Glass in the Anglo Saxon period was used in the manufacture of a range of objects including vessels, beads, windows and was even used in… …   Wikipedia