Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Atiqot
Angaben zur Quelle:
100 (2020) 529-532
Keywords:
Mollusks
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Animal remains (Archaeology)
;
Material culture
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Jaffa (Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel) Antiquities
Abstract:
An assemblage of 76 malacological remains was retrieved from the French School in Yafo. It includes 11 species of local Mediterranean seashells and land snails, one indo-pacific bivalve, one bivalve from the Nile River and two fragments of freshwater bivalves. A cross made of mother of pearl was found in a soil accumulation of the late Ottoman period. The shells were used as construction material and as objects of aesthetic or symbolic value, possibly amulets.
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