0019 - Trivia beads

These are some of the beads made out of Trivia shells.They are part of an assemblage of more than 50 trivia beads collected at the depositions of cremated human remains in the central area of Perdigões. Trivia beads occur at Perdigões since the Neolithic phase. And, during the Chalcolithic, they are also present in the tholoi type tombs in the eastern limits of the site. But is in the context of the deposition of cremated human remains that they have their major concentration. Dated from the middle / third quarter of the 3rd millennium BC.
Naturally, being a sea shell, they are an exogenous item at Perdigões. One of many.

(Photo copyrights A.C. Valera / Era Arqueologia SA.)

To get more information about exogenous sea shells at Perdigões, see here.