Carter, Alison Kyra2022-11-102022-11-102016-10Society of Bead Researchers, "Issue 69, Autumn 2016" (2016). The Bead Forum: Newsletter of the Society of Bead Researchers. 3. https://surface.syr.edu/the_bead_forum/3https://hdl.handle.net/1794/27814https://surface.syr.edu/the_bead_forum/3/?utm_source=surface.syr.edu%2Fthe_bead_forum%2F3&utm_medium=PDF&utm_campaign=PDFCoverPages13 pages. Article only spans first 3.Over several years working in a bead store, and more recently studying ancient beads from Southeast Asia, I frequently saw beads that had circular or half-moon-shaped marks on their surface (Figure 1). Most of the beads were old, fairly large, and spherical. The source and meaning of these marks have generally puzzled bead scholars.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USArticle0000-0001-6331-2149