Spondylus in prehistory
Subtitle: new data and approaches : contributions to the archaeology of shell technologies
By: edited by Fotis Ifantidis, Marianna Nikolaidou
Contributors: Nikolaïdou, Marianna, 1963-; European Association of Archaeologists. Meeting
Series: BAR international series -- 2216; BAR international series -- 2216.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781407307749
Subjects: Congresses; Spondylus; Prehistoric Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology); Antiquities; Shellcraft
Notes: "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.

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