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Title: Five Thousand Years of Shell Symbolism in the Southeast Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Tanis Thorne Native Californian & Nisenan Collection Author: Aaron Deter-Wolf and Tanya M. Peres # of Pages: 13 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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180 Aaron Deter-Wolf and Tanya M. Peres Archaic period became part of the Mississippian narrative and survived into the early Historic period. Note / 1. The raw material for many of these artifacts has been identified as “conch? a term that has been incorrectly used in a generic sense to mean a large marine gastropod. Upon examination of numerous shell gorgets and masks, Peres has determined they were crafted from the lightning whelk (Busycon sinistrum), not conch species. Conch species are in a different family from whelk and have distinct morphological differences, References Anderson, David G. 2010 The End of the Southeastern Archaic: Regional Interaction and Archaeological Interpretation. In Trend, Tradition, and Turmoil: What Happened to the Southeastern Archaic? edited by David Hurst Thomas and Matthew C. Sanger, 273-302. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History no. 93. New York. Anderson, David G., Michael Russo, and Kenneth E. 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