Image: Grotta dei Moscerini shell tools

Description: Specimens of Callista chione some gathered from the sea floor (A, B, D) and some washed up on the beach (C, E). (A) No.74, unretouched umbo. The unabraded and shiny surface indicates that the bivalve was gathered from the sea floor. (B) No. 16, left valve, the break to the right is posterior to the retouch but the retouched edge is complete; note the shiny dorsal surface. Pits are post-depositional, not borings due to marine organisms because they are present also in retouched areas; (C) No. 33, the retouched edge is broken on the left side, the internal and external surfaces have an opaque, chalky appearance with dissolution indicating that the shell was washed up and collected on the beach. (D) no. 14, mesial part of a right valve covered with postdepositional concretions and a retouched edge broken on the right side but the break is prior to retouch; the unabraded and shiny dorsal surface shows that the shell was gathered from the sea floor. (E) No. 24, left valve with an intact portion of the fringe to the right, the left side is broken but the fracture is prior to the retouch; the eroded band following the growth lines and the opaque external surface indicate a beached specimen. Scale bar = 1 cm.
Title: Grotta dei Moscerini shell tools
Credit: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226690
Author: Paola Villa, Sylvain Soriano, Luca Pollarolo, Carlo Smriglio, Mario Gaeta, Massimo D’Orazio, Jacopo Conforti, Carlo Tozzi
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