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Technology, production and use of malacological ornaments and tools at the prehistoric site of Can Roqueta (Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain)
Pau (Barcelona), probably involved with a secondary
food resource and a malacological functional
diversity (Oliva 2007a).
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77, a Glycymeris valve perforated through the
umbo with rectangle form, made by a mixed technique:
percussion and sawn outline (Fig.4).
5. LATER BRONZE AGE AND EARLY IRON AGE
(from 1350 to 500 cal. BC)
became At the important end of the objects Bronze Age, across metallic the goods
Mediterranean Sea. Copper, bronze, gold and whole
ver products were used in Mediterranean trade, sil-
also amber. with Those other changes exotic materials were involved like glass with great and
social communities, complexity characterized and unequal by relations social segmentation
products. and differences Some residual in access objects to made resources with bones, and
between
marine found in malacology storage pits. with One perforated of the ornaments valves, were
represented by a Conusdoubly-perforated: at the is
spire ral surface zone (made zone (made by abrasive by controlled technique) percussion). and late-
The a use traces by suspension, observed in hung the apical up, in a zone necklace. suggested
ornament was found in a hut (CRTR210), in This
middle of a sediment level with exceptional the
objects: fragment a of large human number skull. of ceramic vessels and a
Bronze The Age diversity in Can of Roqueta mollusca is large: at the there end are of gastropodtoma,
Cassis like Charonia sulcosa- lampas, Phalium Stramonita (Tylocasis) haemas-
the
latum undulatum, Conussp. or Conus mediterraneus.
sp., Also Glycymeris we can find violascenscens- bivalves like Glycymeris
granu-
Glycymeris bimaculata, Glycymeris glycymeris, insubrica,
Ruditapes Cerastoderma decussatus, glaucum, Mytilus Chamelea edulis, gallina,
jacobaeus, Arca noae, Acanthocardia tuberculata,
Dentalium Callista vulgare. chioneThe and amount finally of one each scaphopod
Pecten
the total number cannot permit us to talk one about and
subsistence resource. a
tion TheGlycymerisvalves evidences: the small ones show may again be transforma-
but the mid and big sizes present non traces. Perforations were made by abrasive ornamental
tion, direct percussion and natural processes (perforated
perforate by the naticids). large valves The intentional was probably behaviour to make to
fric-
containers for other uses (spoons, like smoothing pickers, small tools, vessels…) weight pieces…
shells is (Oliva also 2007b). evident The in some intentional cases: perforation CRII-123-2-
or
of
Figure 4. Glycymeris insubricaCRII-123-2-77 with regular hole.
through Several contact shell with objects fire display (ovens, burnt fireplaces…). surfaces
Some while others were in were contact probably with placed oven or over fireplace grills or ashes
tainers in a fire because they were not cremated. con-
parts, The found groups in storage of valves, areas without or huts any at Can transformed
in this chronological moment might be raw material Roqueta
storage places. Gathering was an easy task (the site in
is human only 20km groups from could coast have following access the to beach river), so valve the
deposits Stramonita during haemastoma, the whole Charonia year. lampas, Species and like
pits Phalium without granulatum traces of human undulatum manipulation located in are storage
gular material because they are rare in that chronology,
and or prestige their functional goods. Marine interpretation mollusca may in involve
a sin-
status hold contexts is unusual but they have been housemented
in the late Bronze Age town of docu-
(Aitona, Lleida) and nearest coastal sites like Genó
Castellar (Pontós, Girona) and Illa d’en Reixach Mas
(Ullastret, 1998, Güell Girona) 1999). (Maya et al. 1998, Buxó et al.
a large In the population, Iron Age (700-550 with nearly BC) 1800 Can structures Roqueta (big had
storage and ovens, pits, ditches, dwelling water huts, combustion cisterns and structures
areas). The incineration will be the new ritual represented Can Piteu-Can Roqueta funerary
yard or cemetery. Perforated valves and fragments grave-
sp., form the Cerastoderma larger collection glaucum in this and phase. Acanthocardia Glycymeris
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