Archaeomalacology : molluscs in former environments of human behaviour /
By: Proceedings of the International Council for Archaeozoology conference 9th : August 2002 : Durham, England.
Contributor(s): Mayer, Daniella Bar-Yosef
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Publisher: Oxford [England] : Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books ; D. Brown Book Co., c2005Description: viii, 184 p. : ill., maps ; 31 cm.Content type: text | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781842171202; 9781842171202 :.Subject(s): Animal remains (Archaeology) -- Congresses | Mollusks -- Congresses | Mollusks | Kitchen-middens -- CongressesDDC classification: 930.1 Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references.
Land snails, artifacts, and faunal remains : understanding site formation processes at prehistoric/protohistoric sites in the southeastern United States / Evan Peacock, Janet Rafferty and S. Homes Hogue -- Seasonal collection of coquina clams (Donax variabilis Say, 1822) during the archaic and St. Johns periods in coastal northeast Florida / Irvy R. Quitmyer, Douglas S. Jones and C. Fred T. Andrus -- Pre-Columbian preceramic shellfish consumption and shell tool production : shell remains from Orient Bay, Saint-Martin, northern Lesser Antilles / Nathalie Serrand and Dominique Bonnissent -- Shell middens on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua : prehistoric patterns of mollusc collection and consumption / Ermengol Gassiot Ballbè -- Marine mussel shells - wear is the evidence / Jan Light -- The malacofauna of the Upper Paleolithic levels at Grotta della Serratura (Salerno, southern Italy) / André Carlo Colonese and Barbara Wilkens -- Shells at the Bronze Age settlement of Coppa Nevigata (Apulia, Italy) / Claudia Minniti -- The evidence of Spondylus ornamental objects in the central Mediterranean Sea. Two case studies : Sicily and Malta / Salvatore Chilardi ... [et al.] -- Shells from prehistoric sites of northern Greece / Liliane Karali -- Reconstructing Murex royal purple and biblical blue in the Aegean / Deborah Ruscillo -- Molluscs from a middle Bronze Age site and two Hellenistic sites in Thessaly, Greece / Wietske Prummel -- Early preceramic Neolithic marine shells from Shillourokambos, Cyprus (late 9th-8th mill. cal BC) : a mainly ornamental set with similarities to mainland PPNB / Nathalie Serrand, Jean-Denis Vigne and Jean Guilaine -- The mollusc fauna from late Bronze and Iron Age strata of Tell Abu Hawam / Inbar Baruch ... [et al.] -- Shifts in Epipaleolithic marine shell exploitation at Wadi Mataha, southern Jordan / Joel C. Janetski -- The use of marine shells at Sumhuram, Oman / Barbara Wilkens -- The shell material from Suwayh I (Oman, Neolithic) / Chloé Martin -- Marine shell utilisation by the Chalcolithic cultures of the western Deccan region of India / Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee.
Molluscs are the most common invertebrate remains found at archaeological sites. The papers in this volume aim to bring molluscan studies into mainstream zooarchaeological and archaeological debate.