Molluscs are the most common invertebrate remains found at archaeological sites, but archaeomalacology (the study of molluscs in archaeological contexts) is a relatively new archaeological discipline and the field of zooarchaeology is seen by many as one mainly focused on the remains of vertebrates. The papers in this volume hope to redress this balance, bringing molluscan studies into mainstream zooarchaeological and archaeological debate, and resulting in a monograph with a truly international flavour.

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• Preface: Keith Dobney, Peter Rowley-Conwy and Umberto Albarella
  • 1. An Introduction to Archaeomalacology: Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer
• America
  • 2. Land snails, artifacts and faunal remains: understanding site formation processes at Prehistoric/Protohistoric sites in the Southeastern United States: Evan Peacock, Janet Rafferty and S. Homes Hogue
  • 3. Seasonal collection of coquina clams (Donax variabilis Say, 1822) during the Archaic and St. Johns Periods in coastal Northeast Florida: Irvy R. Quitmyer, Dougals S. Jones and C. Fred T. Andrus
  • 4. Pre-Columbian Preceramic shellfish consumption and shell tool production: shell remains from Orient Bay, Saint-Martin, Northern Lesser Antilles: Nathalie Serrand and Dominique Bonnissent
  • 5. Shell middens on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua: Prehistoric patterns of mollusc collection and consumption: Ermengol Gassiot Ballbè
• Europe
  • 6. Marine mussel shells – wear is the evidence: Jan Light
  • 7. The malacofauna of the Upper Paleolithic levels at Grotta della Serratura (Salerno, southern Italy). preliminary data: André Carlo Colonese and Barbara Wilkens
  • 8. Shells at the Bronze Age settlement of Coppa Nevigata (Apulia, Italy): Claudia Minniti
  • 9. The evidence of Spondylus ornamental objects in the central Mediterranean Sea. two case studies: Sicily and Malta: Salvatore Chilardi, Lorenzo Guzzardi, Maria Rosa Iovino and Annalisa Rivoli
  • 10. Shells from Prehistoric sites in northern Greece: Lilian Karali
  • 11. Reconstructing murex Royal Purple and Biblical Blue in the Aegean: Deborah Ruscillo
  • 12. Molluscs from a Middle Bronze Age site and two Hellenistic sites in Thessaly, Greece: Wietske Prummel
  • 13. Early preceramic Neolithic marine shells from Shillourokambos, Cyprus (late 9th-8th mill. cal BC): a mainly-ornamental set with similarities to mainland PPNB: Nathalie Serrand, Jean-Denis Vigne and Jean Guilaine
• Asia
  • 14. The mollusc fauna from the Late Bronze and Iron Age strata of Tell Abu Hawam: Inbar Baruch, Michal Artzy, Joseph Heller, Jacqueline Balensi and Maria D. Herrera
  • 15. Shifts in Epipaleolithic marine shell exploitation at Wadi Mataha, southern Jordan: Joel C. Janetski
  • 16. The use of marine shells at Sumhuram, Oman: Barbara Wilkens
  • 17. The shell material from Suwayh I (Oman, Neolithic): Chloé Martin
  • 18. Marine shell utilisation by the Chalcolithic cultures of the Western Deccan region of India: Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee