Research Catalog

Title

Spondylus in prehistory : new data and approaches : contributions to the archaeology of shell technologies / edited by Fotis Ifantidis, Marianna Nikolaidou.

Publication

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting (13th : 2007 : Zadar, Croatia)
• Ifantidis, Fotis.
• Nikolaïdou, Marianna, 1963-

Description

xiv, 237 p. : ill., maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

BAR international series ; 2216

Uniform Title

BAR international series ; 2216.

Subjects

• Shellcraft > Europe
• Spondylus > Europe
• Antiquities, Prehistoric > Europe
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Europe
• Europe > Antiquities

Note

• "The core of the book consists of papers that were first presented in a special session on "Spondylus in European prehistory: new data and approaches -- a session on the archaeology of shell technologies", organized by the editors for the 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Zadar, Croatia, 18-23 September 2007"--Introd.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction. A volume on Spondylus / Marianna Nikolaidou & Fotis Ifantidis -- pt. 1. Spanning space and time in Spondylus studies: artifacts, symbols, identities. Spondylus shells at prehistoric sites in the Iberian Peninsula / Esteban Álvarez-Fernández -- Spondylus sp. at Lezetxiki Cave (Basque Country, Spain): first evidence of its use in symbolic behavior during the Aurignacian in Europe / Álvaro Arrizabalaga, Esteban Álvarez-Fernández & María-José Iriarte -- Spondylus gaederopus in Prehistoric Italy: jewels from neolithic and copper age sites / Maria Angelica Borrello & Roberto Micheli -- Status of Spondylus artifacts within the LBK grave goods / Jan John -- Reconsideration of Spondylus usage in the middle and late neolithic of the Carpathian Basin / Zsuzsanna Siklósi & Piroska Csengeri -- Spondylus in South American prehistory / Benjamin P. Carter -- pt. 2. Views from the "threshold": Spondylus technologies in the Aegean. Spondylus gaederopus in Aegean prehistory: deciphering shapes from northern Greece / Tatiana Theodoropoulou -- The neolithic settlement at Makriyalos, northern Greece: evidence from the Spondylus gaederopus artifacts / Maria Pappa & Rena Veropoulidou -- Cosmos in fragments: Spondylus and Glycymeris adornment at neolithic Dispilio, Greece / Fotis Ifantidis -- Personhood and the life cycle of Spondylus rings: an example from late neolithic, Greece / John C. Chapman ... [et al.] -- Spondylus objects from Theopetra Cave, Greece: imported of [sic.] local production? / Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika -- pt. 3. Reconstructing lives: archaeometric and experimental analyses. The contribution of archaeometry to the study of prehistoric marine shells / Katerina Douka -- Paleobiological study of Spondylus jewelry found in neolithic (LPC) graves at the locality Vedrovice (Moravia, Czech Republic) / Šárka Hladilová -- Spondylus gaederopus tools and meals in central Greece from the 3rd to the early 1st Millennium BCE / Rena Veropoulidou -- Pre-hispanic attire made of Spondylus from Tula, Mexico / Adrián Velázquez Castro, Belem Zúñiga Arellano & Norma Valentín Maldonado -- Concluding commentary. Lives and journeys, of Spondylus and people: a story to conclude / Marianna Nikolaidou.

ISBN

• 9781407307749
• 1407307746

LCCN

2011379575

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library