‘tracing shell traces’
February 25, 2008, 7:08 pm
Filed under: New World, books, experimental, shell technology

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Yvonne Lammers-Keijsers’s thesis on the shell and stone artefacts from Anse à la Gourde and Morel in Guadeloupe.

More details at http://research.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?c=413

[Yvonne's fascinating PhD is available freely as a pdf file and as a paperback at the Leiden University Press]



prehispanic workshops of spondylus princeps
February 18, 2008, 10:35 am
Filed under: New World, Spondylus studies

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Article by Anne-Marie Hocquenghem & Manuel Peña Ruiz (1994 ) La talla del material malacológico en Tumbes (Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Études Andines 23)



pietrele excavations
February 18, 2008, 10:06 am
Filed under: excavation

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Excavations of the German Archaeological Institute at the Copper Age settlement of Pietrele in Romania.

http://www.dainst.org/index_6832_en.html



Spondylus food
February 14, 2008, 2:36 pm
Filed under: Spondylus studies

Spondylus remains of food consumption

Mitrou, East Lokris, Central Greece. Late Bronze Age



Spondylus tools
February 14, 2008, 2:34 pm
Filed under: Spondylus studies

Beach-worn Spondylus shells used as tools 

Proskynas, Phthiothis, Central Greece. Early Bronze Age



parts and wholes book review
February 13, 2008, 11:16 am
Filed under: Europe, Spondylus studies, books

Reviews by Jonathan Last and Dimitrij Mleku & Mihael Budja on Chapman’s & Gaydarska’s book ‘Parts and Wholes: Fragmentation in Prehistoric Context’, where the case of the Spondylus gaederopus in Aegean and Balkan contexts is discussed.



dimitra shell ornaments
February 13, 2008, 11:10 am
Filed under: Europe, Spondylus studies

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Pdf-available (no images included) article on the shell ornaments from the prehistoric site of Dimitra, E. Macedonia, Greece by L. Karali, published at the Aegaeum series.

http://www.ulg.ac.be/archgrec/IMG/aegeum/aegaeum7(pdf)/Karali.pdf



herxheim excavations
February 13, 2008, 10:26 am
Filed under: Europe, excavation

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Spondylus beads et cetera from the LinearBandKeramik site of Herxheim, Germany.

http://www.projekt-herxheim.de/



spondylus at the european virtual museum
February 13, 2008, 9:19 am
Filed under: museum displays

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Spondylus assemblage from Kleinhadersdorf, Austria, presented at the EU-funded ‘European Virtual Museum’.



dead spondylus in spain
February 12, 2008, 10:31 am
Filed under: Spondylus studies, conferences

Poster presented at the “International Congress on Bivalvia” at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, 22-27 July 2006.

http://www.senckenberg.de/odes/06-16/Kersting_et_al_Spondylus-MortalityMediterran.pdf