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Download Full Article in PDF Format anthropozoologica 2021 ● 56 ● 4 A string of marine shell beads from the Neolithic site of Vršnik (Tarinci, Ovče pole), and other marine shell ornaments in the Neolithic of North Macedonia Vesna DIMITRIJEVIĆ, Goce NAUMOV, Ljubo FIDANOSKI & Sofija STEFANOVIĆ art. 56 (4) — Published on 12 March 2021 www.anthropozoologica.com DIRECTEUR DE LA PUBLICATION / PUBLICATION DIRECTOR : Bruno David Président du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle RÉDACTRICE EN CHEF / EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Joséphine Lesur RÉDACTRICE / EDITOR: Christine Lefèvre RESPONSABLE DES ACTUALITÉS SCIENTIFIQUES / RESPONSIBLE FOR SCIENTIFIC NEWS: Rémi Berthon ASSISTANTE DE RÉDACTION / ASSISTANT EDITOR: Emmanuelle Rocklin ([email protected]) MISE EN PAGE / PAGE LAYOUT: Emmanuelle Rocklin, Inist-CNRS COMITÉ SCIENTIFIQUE / SCIENTIFIC BOARD: Louis Chaix (Muséum d’Histoire naturelle, Genève, Suisse) Jean-Pierre Digard (CNRS, Ivry-sur-Seine, France) Allowen Evin (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France) Bernard Faye (Cirad, Montpellier, France) Carole Ferret (Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, Paris, France) Giacomo Giacobini (Università di Torino, Turin, Italie) Lionel Gourichon (Université de Nice, Nice, France) Véronique Laroulandie (CNRS, Université de Bordeaux 1, France) Stavros Lazaris (Orient & Méditerranée, Collège de France – CNRS – Sorbonne Université, Paris, France) Nicolas Lescureux (Centre d’Écologie fonctionnelle et évolutive, Montpellier, France) Marco Masseti (University of Florence, Italy) Georges Métailié (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France) Diego Moreno (Università di Genova, Gènes, Italie) François Moutou (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) Marcel Otte (Université de Liège, Liège, Belgique) Joris Peters (Universität München, Munich, Allemagne) François Poplin (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France) Jean Trinquier (École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) Baudouin Van Den Abeele (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain, Belgique) Christophe Vendries (Université de Rennes 2, Rennes, France) Denis Vialou (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France) Jean-Denis Vigne (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France) Arnaud Zucker (Université de Nice, Nice, France) COUVERTURE / COVER : Le vaisseau anthropomorphe de Vršnik contenant des perles. Crédits photo : Jugoslav Pendić / The anthropomorphic vessel from Vršnik with beads inside. Photo credits: Jugoslav Pendić. Anthropozoologica est indexé dans / Anthropozoologica is indexed in: – Social Sciences Citation Index – Arts & Humanities Citation Index – Current Contents - Social & Behavioral Sciences – Current Contents - Arts & Humanities – Zoological Record – BIOSIS Previews – Initial list de l’European Science Foundation (ESF) – Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD) – Research Bible Anthropozoologica est distribué en version électronique par / Anthropozoologica is distributed electronically by: – BioOne® (http://www.bioone.org) Anthropozoologica est une revue en flux continu publiée par les Publications scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, avec le soutien du CNRS. Anthropozoologica is a fast track journal published by the Museum Science Press, Paris, with the support of the CNRS. Les Publications scientifiques du Muséum publient aussi / The Museum Science Press also publish: Adansonia, Zoosystema, Geodiversitas, European Journal of Taxonomy, Naturae, Cryptogamie sous-sections Algologie, Bryologie, Mycologie, Comptes Rendus Palevol. Diffusion – Publications scientifiques Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle CP 41 – 57 rue Cuvier F-75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) Tél. : 33 (0)1 40 79 48 05 / Fax : 33 (0)1 40 79 38 40 [email protected] / https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr © Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, 2021 ISSN (imprimé / print) : 0761-3032 / ISSN (électronique / electronic) : 2107-08817 A string of marine shell beads from the Neolithic site of Vršnik (Tarinci, Ovče pole), and other marine shell ornaments in the Neolithic of North Macedonia Vesna DIMITRIJEVIĆ Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Čika Ljubina 18-20, S-11000 Belgrade (Serbia), and Biosense Institute, University of Novi Sad, Dr Zorana Đinđića 1, S-21000 Novi Sad (Serbia) [email protected] Goce NAUMOV Museum of North Macedonia, Josif Mihailović 7, NM-1000 Skopje (North Macedonia) Ljubo FIDANOSKI Museum of the City of Skopje Ss Cyril & Methodius, NM-1000 Skopje (North Macedonia) Sofija STEFANOVIĆ Biosense Institute, University of Novi Sad, Dr Zorana Đinđića 1, S-21000 Novi Sad (Serbia) and Laboratory for Bioarchaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Čika Ljubina 18-20, S-11000 Belgrade (Serbia) Submitted on 24 September 2019 | Accepted on 30 September 2020 | Published on 12 March 2021 Dimitrijević V., Naumov G., Fidanoski L. & Stefanović S. 2021. — A string of marine shell beads from the Neolithic site of Vršnik (Tarinci, Ovče pole), and other marine shell ornaments in the Neolithic of North Macedonia. Anthropozoologica 56 (4): 57-70. https://doi.org/10.5252/anthropozoologica2021v56a4. http://anthropozoologica.com/56/4 ABSTRACT The study of ornaments made of marine shells has remarkable importance for understanding prehis- toric societies. They tell us about fashion, aesthetic and cultural affinities of the individuals and social groups, as well as ancient networks of communication and exchange. The number of marine shell items known from the Neolithic period of North Macedonia is relatively low. Albeit few, they vary in orna- ment type, with beads, bangles and pendants represented, and the kind of shell used as raw material, as they are made of shells of bivalves, gastropods, and scaphopods. Of special importance is a find of 157 shell beads, presumably from a single string, discovered in 1958 in an anthropomorphic vessel at the site of Vršnik in Ovče pole. It was the recognition of this find, and the fact that it was originally poorly described, and later almost completely forgotten, that initiated this study. The majority of beads are tubular and made of shells of two mollusks with very different shell morphology (bivalves and scapho- pods), yet they are strikingly similar in size, shape, and color. In addition, the collection included white KEY WORDS stone tubular beads, a single shell discoid bead, and three perforated snails. This find, as well as others Personal ornaments, from the region of North Macedonia, enhance our understanding of marine shell items distribution Spondylus, Antalis, in continental Europe in the Neolithic period. Also, it adds to the visibility of scaphopod items share scaphopods. in exchange networks, which might be underestimated because of the difficulties in their recognition. ANTHROPOZOOLOGICA • 2021 • 56 (4) © Publications scientifiques du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. www.anthropozoologica.com 57 Dimitrijević V. et al. RÉSUMÉ Un collier de perles de coquillages marins provenant du site néolithique de Vršnik (Tarinci, Ovče pole), et d’autres ornements de coquillages marins du Néolithique de la Macédoine du Nord. L’étude des ornements faits de coquillages marins a une importance remarquable pour la compréhen- sion des sociétés préhistoriques. Ils nous renseignent sur la mode, les affinités esthétiques et culturelles des individus et des groupes sociaux, ainsi que sur les anciens réseaux de communication et d’échange. Le nombre d’objets en coquillages marins connus de la période néolithique de la Macédoine du Nord est relativement faible. Bien que peu nombreux, ils varient en termes de type d’ornement, avec des perles, des bracelets et des pendentifs représentés, et de type de coquillage utilisé comme matière pre- mière, car ils sont constitués de coquilles de bivalves, de gastéropodes et de scaphopodes. La découverte de 157 perles de coquillages, vraisemblablement issues d’un seul fil, est particulièrement importante. Elles ont été découvertes en 1958 dans un vaisseau anthropomorphe sur le site de Vršnik à Ovče pole. C’est la reconnaissance de cette découverte, et le fait qu’elle était à l’origine mal décrite, puis presque complètement oubliée, qui ont lancé cette étude. La majorité des perles sont tubulaires et constituées de coquilles de deux mollusques ayant une morphologie très différente (bivalves et scaphopodes), mais elles sont étonnamment similaires en taille, forme et couleur. En outre, la collection comprenait des perles tubulaires en pierre blanche, une perle discoïde à coquille unique et trois escargots perforés. Cette MOTS CLÉS trouvaille, ainsi que d’autres provenant de la région de Macédoine du Nord, nous permet de mieux Ornements personnels, comprendre la distribution des objets en coquillages marins en Europe continentale au Néolithique. Spondylus, Antalis, De plus, elle ajoute à la visibilité des articles de scaphopodes partagés dans les réseaux d’échange, qui scaphopodes. pourraient être sous-estimés en raison des difficultés de leur reconnaissance. INTRODUCTION 2011; Chapman & Gaydarska 2015), if not prehistory as a whole. In addition, maps are mainly too general when the The man’s affinity for personal ornamentation is universal and type of ornament is in question (with some exceptions, like known since the distant past and from all continents (Cordwell Rigaud 2011: annex 2), and also often lack shell taxonomic 1979; Bar-Yosef Mayer 2005, 2008; Balme & Morse 2006; identification. For example, shell bangles1, one of the most Zilhão 2007; Kuhn & Stiner 2007; Álvarez-Fernández &
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