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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID 2616
Reclau Viver
Prehistory

Homalopoma necklace

MAC BCN-023189

Object type
necklace
Production date
-25000 / -20000
Fabric
-
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Culture
Prehistory
Discovery location
Reclau Viver
Materials
sea ​​shells
Township
Serinyà (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Girona, Pla de l'Estany)
Technique
-
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
400 x 8 mm
Description
Necklace made with the shells of Homalopoma sanguineum, a small Mediterranean gastropod. This species was used as an ornament throughout the Upper Paleolithic in Europe. At Reclau Vivar it was often used during the glacial maximum (Solutrean). Objects of ornament, as symbolic elements, must have expressed messages understood by other members of the group and could possibly indicate social status, prestige, age, belonging to a group...

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