![Example of beads from the Petra collections, 2022.](https://publications.acorjordan.org/wp-content/uploads/pink-fig.-2-beads-from-petra-360x225.jpg)
by McClean Pink I am a master’s student in the Anthropology Department at East Carolina University. Throughout the months of June and July 2022, I held a Pierre and Patricia Bikai Fellowship at the American Center of Research in Amman and, while resident there, used their resources to complete the data collection for my master’s…