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Table 2 XRF results of the Magoro Hill beads classified as Indo-Pacific (element wt %)

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

Sample

Mg

Al

Si

K

Ca

Mn

Fe

Co

Ni

Cu

As

Sr

Sn

Sb

Pb

Cr/ppm

Ag/ppm

U/ppm

Bal

East Coast-Indo Pacific series (EC-IP)

 Mag-ecip-b1

0.61

7.49

40.28

2.94

2.23

0.00

2.33

0

0

0.00

0.00

0.02

0.01

0.00

0.00

71.72

0

89.75

44.13

 Mag-ecip-b2

0.00

6.94

41.55

5.73

1.31

0.00

1.81

0

0

0.00

0.00

0.01

0.00

0.00

0.00

40.14

0

82.12

42.66

K2-Indo Pacific series (K2-IP)

 Mag-k2-lb1

0.00

7.63

48.93

6.51

1.73

0.00

1.32

0

0

0.51

0.00

0.02

0.02

0.00

0.10

0

0

10.085

33.27

 Mag-k2-lb2*

0.00

1.51

47.98

7.46

5.54

0.00

0.50

0

0

1.31

0.10

0.10

0.01

0.10

0.00

0

0

0

35.38

 Mag-k2-lb6*

0.00

1.61

46.22

4.33

4.83

0.00

0.81

0

0

1.21

0.00

0.10

0.01

0.10

0.10

0

0

0

40.68

Khami-Indo Pacific series (K-IP)

 Mag-k-w1*

0.00

4.34

46.72

2.02

3.63

0.00

1.72

0

0

0.00

0.00

0.10

0.03

3.94

0.20

110.9

0

0

37.34

 Mag-k-w2

0.00

5.33

40.04

1.71

2.41

0.00

2.11

0

0

0.00

0.00

0.02

0.00

0.00

0.00

17.93

0

62.46

48.39

 Mag-k-y1

0.61

6.93

41.69

2.55

2.14

0.00

2.04

0

0

0.00

0.00

0.02

0.41

0.00

3.16

37.9

0

80.31

40.47

 Mag-k-y2

0.51

6.95

40.49

2.56

2.35

0.00

2.04

0

0

0.00

0.00

0.02

0.51

0.00

3.48

24.6

65.76

20.23

41.10

 Mag-k-db7

0.40

6.34

37.06

2.01

2.52

0.02

2.42

0.20

0

0.10

0.10

0.02

0.003

0.001

0.00

50.46

0

42.23

48.84

 Mag-k-db8

0.00

6.16

43.69

3.13

2.22

0.00

1.51

0

0

0.40

0.00

0.02

0.00

0.00

0.00

35.7

0

21.30

42.89

 Mag-k-lb11

0.00

4.72

45.53

1.71

1.51

0.00

1.51

0

0

0.50

0.00

0.01

0.00

0.00

0.00

0

0

54.62

44.52

 Mag-k-g12*

3.35

6.18

42.66

3.67

2.83

0.10

1.15

0

0

0.84

0.00

0.02

1.15

0.00

6.50

80.54

213.2

0

31.55

 Mag-k-g13

1.02

7.57

47.59

2.76

2.05

0.10

1.84

0

0

0.51

0.00

0.01

0.41

0.00

3.07

0

0

79.00

33.06

 Mag-k-g14*

6.27

7.43

25.48

1.54

1.54

0.13

0.38

0

0.13

1.02

5.63

0.00

0.02

0.00

50.45

0

343.14

0

0.00

 Mag-k-r16*

0.00

3.94

45.66

3.94

4.24

0.00

0.71

0

0

2.02

0.00

0.10

0.02

0.10

0.10

42.04

0

0

39.19

  1. Beads marked with * were incorrectly classified based on the presence or absence of the bold minerals
  2. (0) Value indicates the concentration of the element was under the instrument limit of detection (LOD)