Cataloging Cowries: A Standardized Strategy to Record Six Key Species of Cowrie Shell from the West African Archaeological Record
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DOI: 10.1007/s10437-019-09351-z
Abstract: Two species of cowrie shell, Monetaria moneta (Linnaeus 1758) and Monetaria annulus (Linnaeus 1758), occur repeatedly in archaeological contexts across West Africa. Despite their archaeological and ethnographic importance, these shells remain poorly and inconsistently reported… read more here.
Keywords: species cowrie; linnaeus 1758; record; west african ... See more keywords