Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Atiqot
Angaben zur Quelle:
109 (2022) 225-228
Keywords:
Harbors
;
Mollusks
;
Tel Aviv-Yafo (Israel) Antiquities
;
Eretz Israel History 1517-1917, Ottoman period
Abstract:
This report discusses 558 malacological remains retrieved from the Yafo harbor excavations. The assemblage includes Mediterranean shells and Indo-Pacific bivalves and a single land snail, mostly dated to the Ottoman period. The Pinctada margaritifera remains were probably production waste of the European button industry, which reached Yafo en route to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, where it was used as raw material for inlaying religious souvenirs.
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