Land snail shell is a frequent constituent of archaeological sites, but it is rarely clear whether it represents food refuse, the remains of scavengers, or evidence for natural processes. Piercing of land snail shells enables the animal to be extracted from the shell and thus provides direct evidence for human consumption. We report pierced land snails from the Haua Fteah, Libya. The earliest pierced land snail shell in the Haua Fteah pre-dates the Last Interglacial, while the most recent is Late-Classical in age, but the largest quantities are in layers of Late-Glacial and earliest Holocene age, where they are associated with atypical microliths which may have been used to pierce shells to enable easy extraction of the animal.
Land gasteropod piercing during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in the Haua Fteah, Libya / Hill, Evan A.; Hunt Chris, O.; Lucarini, Giulio; Mutri, Giuseppina; Farr, Lucy; Barker, Graeme. - In: JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE: REPORTS. - ISSN 2352-409X. - STAMPA. - 4:(2015), pp. 320-325. [10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.09.003]
Land gasteropod piercing during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in the Haua Fteah, Libya
Lucarini, Giulio;Mutri, Giuseppina;
2015
Abstract
Land snail shell is a frequent constituent of archaeological sites, but it is rarely clear whether it represents food refuse, the remains of scavengers, or evidence for natural processes. Piercing of land snail shells enables the animal to be extracted from the shell and thus provides direct evidence for human consumption. We report pierced land snails from the Haua Fteah, Libya. The earliest pierced land snail shell in the Haua Fteah pre-dates the Last Interglacial, while the most recent is Late-Classical in age, but the largest quantities are in layers of Late-Glacial and earliest Holocene age, where they are associated with atypical microliths which may have been used to pierce shells to enable easy extraction of the animal.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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