Shell Ornaments Research Articles

Social Complexity Among the Lowland Virgin Anasazi

Burials from the site of Main Ridge provide an important test of recent assertions that Anasazi societies in southern Nevada were chiefdoms. Six of forty-five burials included shell or turquoise ornaments, and the quantity of associations ranged from one to twenty-one items. Despite this variability, the burial population does not show the strong associations among burial location, kinds of associations and quantities of associations to be expected of a ranked society.

Experiments With Early Techniques for Making Whole Shells into Beads

Previous articleNext article No AccessExperiments With Early Techniques for Making Whole Shells into BeadsPeter Francis, Jr.Peter Francis, Jr. Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 23, Number 6Dec., 1982 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/202925 Views: 40Total views on this site Citations: 19Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1982 The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological ResearchPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Micka Ullman, Lena Brailovsky, Heeli C. Schechter, Lior Weissbrod, Roni Zuckerman-Cooper, Michael B. Toffolo, Valentina Caracuta, Elisabetta Boaretto, Steve Weiner, Julia Abramov, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Vladimir Wolff Avrutis, Shlomo Kol-Ya'kov, Amos Frumkin The early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B site at Nesher-Ramla Quarry, Israel, Quaternary International 624 (Jun 2022): 148–167.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2021.04.019Danny Rosenberg, Inbar Ktalav, Iris Groman-Yaroslvski, Florian Klimscha Unique Theodoxus jordani shell beads from the Middle Chalcolithic site of Tel Tsaf (ca. 5200–4700 cal BC), Jordan Valley, Israel, Archaeological Research in Asia 29 (Mar 2022): 100349.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2021.100349Carey J. Garland, Brandon T. Ritchison, Bryan Tucker, Victor D. Thompson A preliminary consideration of craft production and settlement expansion on Ossabaw Island, Georgia, USA, The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 2 (Oct 2021): 1–18.https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2021.1962436Inbar Ktalav, Yotam Tepper, Gil Gambash, Sina Lehnig, Guy Bar-Oz Long-distance trade and consumption of mollusks in the Byzantine and Early Islamic periods in the Negev Desert, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 37 (Jun 2021): 102927.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102927Heeli C. Schechter, Nimrod Getzov, Hamoudi Khalaily, Ianir Milevski, A. Nigel Goring-Morris, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer Exceptional shell depositions at PPNB Yiftahel, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 37 (Jun 2021): 102944.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102944Catarina Guzzo Falci, Jacques Cuisin, André Delpuech, Annelou Van Gijn, Corinne L. Hofman New Insights into Use-Wear Development in Bodily Ornaments Through the Study of Ethnographic Collections, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 26, no.22 (Sep 2018): 755–805.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-018-9389-8Elena-Cristina Nițu, Marin Cârciumaru, Adrian Nicolae, Ovidiu Cîrstina, Florin Ionuț Lupu, Marian Leu, Marco Peresani Mobility and social identity in the Mid Upper Paleolithic: New personal ornaments from Poiana Cireșului (Piatra Neamț, Romania), PLOS ONE 14, no.44 (Apr 2019): e0214932.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214932Emma L. Baysal, Cevdet Merih Erek Material Movement in the Near Eastern Epipalaeolithic: Implications of the Shell and Stone Beads of Direkli Cave, Turkey, Journal of Field Archaeology 43, no.88 (Nov 2018): 591–603.https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2018.1529506Ben Shaw, Michelle C. Langley Investigating the development of prehistoric cultural practices in the Massim region of eastern Papua New Guinea: Insights from the manufacture and use of shell objects in the Louisiade Archipelago, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 48 (Dec 2017): 149–165.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2017.07.005Catarina Guzzo Falci, Annelou Van Gijn, M. Magdalena Antczak, Andrzej T. Antczak, Corinne L. Hofman Challenges for microwear analysis of figurative shell ornaments from pre-Colonial Venezuela, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 11 (Feb 2017): 115–130.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.11.029Michelle C. 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Troisième mission archéologique française à Qatar 1978-1979

The third French archaeological expedition to Qatar (Prehistory, Protohistory and islamic Archaeology) has been characterized by field interdisciplinarity with the presence of an ichtyologist and a malacologist. Work on the prehistoric sites was continued : I ) extension of a site with obeidian pottery characterized by its workshop of large flint bifacial pieces and the extreme abundance of fish remains and 2) mapping (255 m2) of a surface workshop for the debitage of blades. Two protohistoric cairns have been excavated and have yielded two burials with one skeleton each, in constricted position with shell ornaments and a few hardstone beads. Another site has been discovered. From the study of its pottery it is suggested that it belongs to the Dilmun culture.

WILLIAM HENRY HOLMES

WILLIAM HENRY HOLMES

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Archælogy of the San Joaquin Valley, California.—A further study of the archaeology of the San Joaquin Valley, in this case covering the northern section, has been published by the University of California in the Publications relating to American Archæology and Ethnology, Vol. 26, No. 4. The authors, W. E. Schenck and Elmer J. Dawson, have examined a number of mounds in this section as well as specimens obtained by other collectors, especially the late Mr. H. H. Barr. The mounds, the evidence indicates, were not used exclusively for burial, though these occur throughout the strata and in some cases in the substratum. Although some of the human bones were scorched, this was probably due to the burial fire, and cremation was not practised. Artefacts were burned at the grave. Of those associated with the skeletal remains, which were found in large numbers, pipes, pestles, and obsidian blades were sometimes broken or ‘killed’. Shell ornaments and beads were the objects most frequently found. Though pottery was extremely rare, the large number of objects of clay was one of the unique features of the site. Baked clay balls were found in profusion. These were probably a local invention, as they are not known elsewhere. Their use is obscure. Their number is perhaps due to the lack of stone in the area, and they may have been used for some such purpose as fire-stones. The age of the mounds in some instances may be put at 1800 A.D., as is shown by Caucasian objects associated with the finds; but the oldest mound is calculated to be probably not more than fifteen hundred years earlier.

Aboriginal Shell Ornaments, and Mr. F. A. Barber's Paper Thereon

Previous articleNext article FreeAboriginal Shell Ornaments, and Mr. F. A. Barber's Paper ThereonR. E. C. StearnsR. E. C. Stearns Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The American Naturalist Volume 11, Number 8Aug., 1877 Published for The American Society of Naturalists Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/271931 Views: 32Total views on this site Copyright 1877 A. S. Packard, Jr.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.