Image: Decorated shell from Cueva Antón
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Description: Ornamental shell across the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in the Mula basin sites. a. Pecten half-valve from Middle Palaeolithic layer I-k of Cueva Antón; the reddish color of the internal side is natural; remnants of an orange colorant made of goethite and hematite are visible in the side that was painted (the external, whitish one)
Title: Decorated shell from Cueva Antón
Credit: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00435
Author: João Zilhão and colleagues
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