New paper
on Perdigões enclosure. This one about the social role of molluscs and mollusc shells
in the site. The main conclusion is that the consumption of molluscs and shells
is mainly an issue of ideology, rather than subsistence, in the context of
transregional interaction and use of exogenous materials. The majority are sea
or estuarine species and, of those, it was the shell (not the mollusc) that
circulated the most. Pecten maximus is one of the main presences, but in
different contexts according to chronology: in depositions in ditches and pits
in the Neolithic Perdigões, and a lot in funerary contexts during the
chalcolithic. These and some other interesting aspects of molluscs use at a
local and regional scales are discussed in the paper (in Portuguese),
where large ditched enclosures show differences regarding smaller open or
walled sites.
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