The necklace from the Strážnice site in the Hodonín district (Czech Republic). A contribution on the subject of Spondylus jewellery in the Neolithic

The study refers to the issue of shell artefacts in the Early Neolithic and highlights the importance of identifying the correct genus and species of the raw material used. The subject of the study is an older find of a necklace, which had not been subjected to any analysis of species identi- ficati...

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Published inDocumenta praehistorica Vol. 40; pp. 265 - 278
Main Authors Gardelková-Vrtelová, Anna, Golej, Marián
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ljubljana University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts 2013
University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
Subjects
Archaeology
bivalves shell microstructure
Historic artifacts
Jewelry
LBK
Neolithic
Neolithic in the Czech Republic
shell artefacts
Spondylus
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Summary:The study refers to the issue of shell artefacts in the Early Neolithic and highlights the importance of identifying the correct genus and species of the raw material used. The subject of the study is an older find of a necklace, which had not been subjected to any analysis of species identi- fication in the past. The shell material of the necklace was examined by ‘microstructural analysis’. This article also questions the age of the necklace and the possibilities of it having been reconstructed.
ISSN:1408-967X
1854-2492
DOI:10.4312/dp.40.21