A Cabana (Barreiros, Lugo)primeros datos de un conchero purpurino en la costa cantábrica
- Carlos Fernández Rodríguez 1
- María Natividad Fuertes Prieto 1
- Eduardo Ramil Rego 2
- Víctor Bejega García 1
- Eduardo González Gómez de Agüero
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Universidad de León
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- 2 Museo de Prehistoria e Arqueoloxía de Vilalba
ISSN: 1134-6787
Year of publication: 2015
Issue: 8
Pages: 85-94
Type: Article
More publications in: Férvedes: Revista de investigación
Abstract
The severe storms that hit the coast of Galicia during the beginning of 2014 uncovered a deposit of shells on the Cantabrian coast of Lugo, very close to the site of Punta do Castro. It was observed that they were the remains, cemented to the rock, of an ancient shell midden. Both these relics and the processing of the surrounding sediment show a predominance of purple (Stramonita haemastoma). The high fragmentation index suggests that the processing of this mollusk was connected to obtaining this precious dye.