The use of marine shells as raw material for making polished tools: an artifact discovered in Costamar (Castellón)

Autor: Ignacio Clemente Conte, Teresa Orozco Köhler
Jazyk: Catalan; Valencian<br />English<br />Spanish; Castilian
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Sagvntum, Vol 44, Iss 0, Pp 39-46 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0210-3729
2174-517X
DOI: 10.7203/SAGVNTVM.44.1773
Popis: The uniqueness of a polished tool recovered from the neolithic levels of the prehistoric site of Costamar (Castellón, Spain) raised a detailed analysis of both the nature of the support, which has been identified as a sea shell concerning the species Spondylus gaederopus, as traces of use preserved at the edge that allows us to define the tool as an adze.
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