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Strontium isotope dating of the source of Neolithic European Spondylus shell artefacts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Judith Shackleton  and
Henry Elderfield
Judith Shackleton
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ
Henry Elderfield
Affiliation:
Department of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ
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Antiquity , Volume 64 , Issue 243 , June 1990 , pp. 312 - 315
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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The long-distance movement of Spondylus ornaments, carved from marine shell, across Neolithic Europe, has been for decades a classic case-study in early exchange systems. A necessary preliminary to informed discussion, a secure provenance for Spondylus shell as a natural raw material, has – remarkably – been lacking in the past.

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