INTERREGIONAL RELATIONS BETWEEN SOUTH ASIA AND EASTERN EUROPE ON THE MATERIALS OF SHELL PRODUCTS (XXX CENTURY BC - VII CENTURY AD)
Journal: Yearbook of Finno-Ugric Studies
Year: 2022

Since the beginning of the III millennium BC, the population of the Hindustan peninsula has used the shells of Turbinella pyrum and Cypraea moneta mollusks for the production of various categories of inventory. From about the same time and up to the beginning of the XX century, these shells and objects made of them were delivered to other Asian regions. Since the VIII century BC, shells of Cypraea moneta began to arrive on the territory of Eastern Europe through the Caucasus, and Turbinella pyru