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Table 1 Overview of some of the faience beads excavated from the Wupu cemetery

From: The dissemination of Chinese potash-rich faience: investigation of faience beads from the Wupu cemetery, Xinjiang

Sample

Date

Features of appearance

Shape

Analysis

HW-F-1

800B.C.–500B.C

Blue-green, opaque

Tubular beads

Stereomicroscopy, SR-μCT, EPMA

HW-F-2

800B.C.–500B.C

Blue-green, opaque, grooved surface

Tubular beads

Stereomicroscopy, SR-μCT, EPMA

HW-F-3

800B.C.–500B.C

Blue-green, opaque, with a few white weathered layers on the surface

Tubular beads

Stereomicroscopy, SR-μCT, EPMA

HW-F-4

800B.C.–500B.C

Blue-green, opaque, with a few white weathered layers on the surface

Ovoid beads

Stereomicroscopy

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