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Minneapolis employs mussels, too! They send emails and text messages to their supervisors (Really!! Not a joke!!)

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Just published! A review (open access) of archaeological land snail analysis as a discipline in Britain 50(+) years after the publication of JG Evans's Land Snails in Archaeology doi.org/10.61733/jco... 🏺

A Multi-Proxy Investigation of the Anthropogenic Landscape Near the Early Bronze Age Building VII at Al-Khashbah, Oman | Open Quaternary Open Quaternary is a fully open access, double-blind peer-reviewed journal, publishing contributions that consider the changing environment of the Quaternary as well as the development of humanity.The...

Freshly published in Open Quaternary, this is a nice multi-proxy (pollen/ plant macros/ sclerochronology) study of a later prehistoric landscape in Oman openquaternary.com/articles/10.... 🏺

Title page of the article "Early Upper Paleolithic marine mollusc exploitation at Riparo Bombrini (Balzi Rossi, Italy)" by S. Gazzo, E. Cristiani, F. Negrino & J. Riel-Salvatore, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Selection of shell ornaments from level A1. 1, Tritia mutabilis; 2, Turritellinella tricarinata; 3, Ocenebra edwardsii; 4, Tritia gibbosula; 5, Tritia neritea; 6, Trivia sp.; 7, Euspira macilenta; 8, Homalopoma sanguineum;

a) Location of anthropic perforation according to Taborin (1993a): E1, edge of the lip (E1a, very close to the edge of the lip; E1b, further away from the edge of the lip; E1c, on the back ); E1-E2, between the edge of the lip and the back; E2, base of the back; E3, under the natural aperture; E4, base of the shell (in suspension position); E5, against the columella. (modified from Taborin 1993a , p. 170). Below - location of the perforation in some of the identified taxa. From right to left: T. neritea, T. pellucida, H. sanguineum, T. monacha, T. incrassata, O. edwardsii; b) Localization of the four areas identified around the rim of the shell’s perforation; c) graphic representation of the distribution of use wear in the four areas in all the investigated levels; d) graphic representation of the use wear distribution on two of the most represented species: e) H. sanguineum and d) T. neritea.

Photograph of a rocky coastline like that immediately next to Riparo Bombrini.

🏺🚨 New paper alert! 🚨🧪 Early Upper Palaeolithic marine mollusc exploitation at Riparo Bombrini (Balzi Rossi, Italy): shellfish consumption and ornament production.

Interested in early Homo sapiens ornamentation and subsistence?... 1/n

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Call for Contributions: Archaeo+Malacology Newsletter We kindly remind members to send in contributions for Issue 41 of the Archaeo + Malacology Group Newsletter, to be circulated in March 2025. If you missed Issue 40, you can view it at&nbs…

Call for Contributions: Archaeo+Malacology Newsletter Issue 41. Deadline Feb 28th. archaeomalacology.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/c...

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11th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology @isba11.bsky.social

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