Necklace Shell Bead from Cro-Magnon, France
date: label: Accession Date
content: 26 Apr 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Edward Lartet
notes: label: Notes
content: A set of ten Littorina (periwinkle or winkle) sea snail shell beads from Cro-Magnon, France. These beads, which are approximately 30,000 years old, were drilled and would have been strung together as a necklace. Some shells have traces of ocher, a clue they were colored with pigment.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Apr 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 10
place: label: Place
content: Dordogne, France, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Aurignacian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001529
label: USNM Number
content: A8129-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bead