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yes & you clearly think you're making anthropological points but you're not, you're just making circular arguments. No anthropologist thinks Sungir beads were "money" just because they're durable & were (presumably) considered valuable
Do you speak for all anthropologists? Do they really all draw such conclusions from cultures like Sungir they've never observed? Even though many cultures were observed to use beads as stores of value and media of wealth transfer? One of many being https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/conflict-and-collectibles-among-yurok_87.html …
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I wrote a piece called "beads & money" I'm keenly aware of the relationship. For every society that used beads for monetary purposes there are probably 50 that don't & most of those that do use them as social currencies
"Don't" present tense (and according to what definition of money)? Early travelers & missionaries, who usually observed cultures in a state far less disrupted by development than they were by the 20th century, observed beads used as SoV & wealth transfers more often than not.
to say the existence of beads proves anything other than that some people liked to put nice things in their clothes is bizarre & any anthropologist would say this
so there's basically two different layers of false assumption based on any claim that existence of beads is evidence for a commodity theory of the origins of (commercial) money
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