Cultural and Chronological Attribution of the Cowrie Shells in the West and East Siberia Based on the Archaeological and Ethnographic Artifacts
Journal: Teoriya i praktika arkheologicheskikh issledovaniy
Year: 2022

The study represents the first attempt to summarize available information related to a rare category of archaeological finds, that is cowrie shells. The interest is sparked by fourteen cowrie artifacts collected in 1954 from the Selkup burial complex Pachanga dated to the 16th century. In comparison with South Siberia regions where due to geographical proximity to the centers of its origin and distribution, the volume of these finds is much higher, the amount of material found in the North is ve