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Dear Salima,

Freshwater mussels are very common in iberian neolithic-chalcolithic sites, even consuption evidence often are not very clear.... Shells frecuently appears mixed with bone fragments and domestic waste. Here you are some references:


Gonçalves, V. S. (2002). "Lugares de povoamento das antigas sociedades camponesas entre o Guadiana e a Ribeira do Álamo (Reguengos de Monsaraz): um ponto da situação em inícios de 2002." Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia 5(2): 153-189.

              

Llorente Rodríguez, L., et al. (2015). Las Náyades (Mollusca, Unionoida) del Calcolítico de Camino de las Yeseras (San Fernando de Henares, Madrid). La Investigación Arqueomalacológica en la Península Ibérica: Nuevas Aportaciones. I. Gutiérrez Zugasti, D. Cuenca Solana and M. R. González Morales. Santander, Nadir Ediciones: 125-134.

              

Martínez Sánchez, R. M. (2013). "Cerdos, caprinos y náyades. Aproximación a la explotación ganadera y fluvial en el Guadalquivir entre el Neolítico y la Edad del Cobre (3500- 2200 BC)." Spal 22: 29-46.


Here in spain I never really knew about historic references of freshwater mussels use as food, even I once heard about someone who occasionally eat this in a rice dish (local type of "paella") (!)


Best,


Rafa


Rafael M. Martinez Sánchez
Investigador contratado Post-Doctoral
Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología
Universidad de Granada
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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 12:47:46 +0200
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Thanks so much.
I just want to know what they taste like and am loath to do the tasting myself...
Salima Ikram
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Egyptology Unit Head
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and Egyptology
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On 1 Aug 2016, at 10:51, Harry Robson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Salima,

I hope this email finds you well. There is at least one freshwater shell midden in Denmark - Aakonge- which dates to the Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic. In addition, there is one further east into the Baltic in Latvia, Rinnukalns. 

I have some publications on both, if you would like them, email me off list.

Best,

Harry

Dr Harry Kenneth Robson,
Post-doctoral Research Associate: Archaeological chemistry,
The Innovation and Development of Pottery in East Asia

Address:
Department of Archaeology, 
BioArCh, 
University of York, 
York, 
YO10 5DD
UK

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From: Analysis of animal remains from archaeological sites <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Salima Ikram <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear All

Any thoughts on freshwater bivalve consumption? Are they nice? Are they properly edible? Mutela sp, Aspatheria, chambardia rubens, Coelatura aegyptiaca


Salima Ikram
Distinguished University Professor 
Egyptology Unit Head
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and Egyptology
American University in Cairo
AUC Avenue, PO Box 74
New Cairo 11835
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tel: 20-2-2615-1840; fax: 20-2-2797-4903