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Dating the Cassis rufa shell from the Mousterian levels of the Grotte du Prince, Monaco
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
Abstract
A fragment of Cassis rufa shell, in modern times a species of the Indian Ocean, was reliably reported from the deep Mousterian deposits excavated at the beginning of the century from the Grotte du Prince, Monaco. Because its known habitat is so distant and exotic, there has always been question about the specimen's authenticity. A radiocarbon determination shows it to be recent, and no evidence for long-distance movement of shell in the European Middle Palaeolithic.
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