They would eat the meat and use the shells for wampum, or beads that were traditionally used as ceremonial gifts and later as currency. The Latin name for quahog, mercenaria mercenaria ...

Join the Keokuk Art Center’s celebration of several local artists for the exhibit “Celebrate Keokuk” during the month of June ...

How Indigenous currencies—including wampum and dentalium shells, beads, and the cryptocurrency MazaCoin—have long constituted a form of resistance to settler colonialism. Indigenous Currencies ...

Almost fifty years ago, when Haraldur Sigurdsson first came to the University of Rhode Island from Iceland, he got interested ...

They found evidence of past habitation—such as broken pottery, shell beads, and stone tools—across 65 percent of the islands. Oyster shells were strewn over a quarter of them. While the ...

LISBON — Columbiana County 2025 Champion Speller Maureen Bone was only off by one letter when she attempted to spell “spodumene” on stage at the Scripps National Spelling Bee Tuesday afternoon in ...

the latter choosing to decorate theirs with pearls and real shells. When it comes to finding the right charm necklace, there are several pre-made versions that will instantly inject a personalized ...

Here, we show the combination of GO and chitosan (CTS) into inorganic–organic heterocomposites as ∼3 mm diameter core–shell beads with controlled microstructure. The spherical GO-CTS beads, made by a ...