Unravelling the glass trade bead sequence from Magoro Hill, South Africa: separating pre-seventeenth-century Asian imports from later European counterparts

Heritage Science

Table 1 Bead series classification based on morphological attributes and elemental analysis [23]

Bead series	Period traded in southern Africa
Zhizo	Eigth to mid-tenth c. AD
K2 Indo-Pacific	Late tenth to early thirteenth c.
East Coast Indo-Pacific	Early eleventh to mid-thirteenth c.
Mapungubwe oblate series	Thirteenth c.—second quarter to end
Zimbabwe series	Fourteenth to early fifteenth c.
Khami series	Fifteenth to seventeenth c.