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The Use of Cone Shells in Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2013

David S. Reese
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Abstract

Finds of the Mediterranean Cone Shell (Conus mediterraneus Hwass in Bruguière 1792 = ventricosus Gmelin) from Neolithic and Bronze Age Greece are listed, and their use discussed.

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Research Article
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Annual of the British School at Athens , Volume 78 , November 1983 , pp. 353 - 357
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Copyright © The Council, British School at Athens 1983

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16 There are 160 conuli from a Mycenae chamber tomb excavated by Tsountas, comparable with the 158 Conus found in Tomb Δ172 at Perati. The 35 conuli from Tomb XXIV at Deiras can be compared with the 38 cone shells from Tomb Δ101 at Perati and 40 from Tomb XXVI at Prosymna.

17 The lead-filled cone shells have been studied by Susan Mossman in connection with her work on Mycenaean lead objects, and she might have suggestions as to their purpose.

18 D. S. Reese, ‘The Archaeological Usage of Nassariid Shells in the Mediterranean Basin’, in press in The Journal of Mediterranean Anthropology and Archaeology.