The extent of premodern trade networks always blows my mind.
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RT @Patrick_Wyman
So cool: These beads made in Venice at some point in the 14th or 15th century (before Columbus) came all the way from the Mediterranean, along the Silk Road to East Asia or Siberia, then across the Bering Strait to 15th-century Indigenous sites in Alaska. https://gizmodo.com/found-in-alaska-these-blue-beads-could-be-the-oldest-e-1846208780?utm_medium=s…
https://twitter.com/Patrick_Wyman/status/1358244502666809344