The core of “Spondylus in Prehistory: New Data and Approaches – Contributions to the Archaeology of Shell Technologies” (British Archaeological Reports – J & E Hedges Ltd) will consist of the papers first presented at the Spondylus session organized at the EAA 13th Annual Meeting at Zadar. In addition, the volume will include further contributions based on the following four thematic sections:
Section I, Spanning Space and Time in Spondylus studies, presenting case studies from diverse geographic and chronological contexts
Section II, Subsistence, Technology, and Trade, examining dietary and non-dietary uses of Spondylus, local production and imports, trade and exchange networks, isotope and paleobiological studies
Section III, Consumption: Biographies, Cultural lives, Performance, focusing on adornment and narrating the cultural lives of Spondylus and other coveted shell, from procurement of raw material to manufacture, social and ritual uses, repairs, circulation and disposal.
Section IV, Spondylus as Offering: Symbol, Status, Identity, discussing Spondylus-rich funerary contexts from prehistoric Europe and the New World
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List of contributions
Alvaro Arrizabalaga, Esteban Álvarez-Fernadez & María-José Iriarte (Spain)
Spondylus sp. at Lezetxiki Cave (Basque Country, Spain): First evidence of its use in symbolic behaviour during the Aurignacian in Europe
Benjamin P. Carter (USA)
Spondylus in South American Prehistory
Maria Pappa & Rena Veropoulidou (Greece)
Neolithic settlement of Makriyalos, Northern Greece: The Spondylus gaederopus artifacts
Maria Angelica Borrello & Roberto Micheli (Italy)
Spondylus gaederopus in Prehistoric Italy: Jewels from Neolithic and Copper Age sites
Esteban Álvarez-Fernadez (Spain)
Spondylus shells at prehistoric sites in the Iberian peninsula
John Chapman, Bisserka Gaydarska, Evangelia Skafida & Stella Souvatzi (UK & Greece)
Personhood and the life cycle of Spondylus rings: An example from Late Neolithic Dimini, Greece
Katerina Douka (UK)
The contribution of archaeometry to the study of prehistoric marine shells
Šárka Hladilová (Czech Republic)
Paleobiological study of Spondylus jewellery found in Neolithic (LPC) graves at the locality Vedrovice (Moravia, Czech Republic)
Nina Kyparissi (Greece)
Spondylus objects from Theopetra Cave, Greece: Imported or local production?
Rena Veropoulidou (Greece)
Spondylus gaederopus tools and meals in Central Greece from the 3rd to the Early 1st millennium BC
Fotis Ifantidis (Greece)
Spondylus and Glycymeris personal adornment stories at Neolithic Dispilio, Greece
Marianna Nikolaidou (USA)
Crafting shell for adornment: A ritualized technology in the Neolithic Aegean?
Tatiana Theodoropoulou (France)
Spondylus gaederopus in Aegean Prehistory: Deciphering shapes from Northern Greece
Jan John (Czech Republic)
Status of Spondylus artifacts within the LBK grave goods
Zsuzsanna Siklósi & Piroska Csengeri (Hungary)
Reconsideration of Spondylus usage in the Middle and Late Neolithic of the Carpathian basin
Adrián Velázquez, Zúñiga Arellano & Valentín Maldonado (Mexico)
The Pre-hispanic attire made of Spondylus from Tula, Mexico
