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[Old Pueblo]

Found yesterday in the desert near home. My first and probably the only one Ill ever find. A glycymeris shell pendant from the Gulf of California. Its from the Hohokam period, which means its at least 500 years old, from about 1450 AD or before. These are actually pretty rare, Ive only ever heard of archaeologists finding them. It was ground down around the edge to make it more rounded, and then grounded flat on top to make the hole. I also found that tipless arrowhead, a tiny little thing.





The last photo shows the shell pendant with a stone pendant I found a few years ago and another little shell bead I found a couple months ago. All Hohokam period stuff.

 

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[Tpmetal]

Love the ancient chevy pendant, haha

 

[Old Pueblo]

First photo is the in situ pic.

 

[digger460]

Nice recovery!

 

[scruggs]

It’s a sweet find.

 

[welsbury]

Very cool. Love the personal adornment things.Lot of traveling with those shells.

 

[Old Pueblo]

Thanks everyone

 

[rock]

Its amazing it was whole due to how brittle shells are. Nice save

 

[Icewing]

Not to take away from your find, but I think that looks more like a scallop shell than glycymeris shell based on the prominence of the ridges. Then again I'm married so I'm wrong a lot.

 

[Old Pueblo]

It might be. I just assume its a glycymeris shell because I know the natives around here were known to use glycymeris shells. They probably played around with other types of shell as well.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Awesome find. It's nice to remove one from the list every now and then.

 

[Old Pueblo]

Awesome find. It's nice to remove one from the list every now and then.

Yeah it is. I never really thought Id find one, but I always hoped so. So it was an amazing day. And thank you

 

[joshuaream]

Great find, I’ve heard the distribution of some of the shell Hohokam items like that was probably a pretty tightly controlled thing. Only certain people got to display important trade items like that.

 

[Terry Soloman]

Wow - Great Find!!!

 

[CoinFetcher]

As a fisherman, clam digger, and #1 bait man on commercial crab boat - that shell looks like a cockle clam that has been shaved a bit.

That said - it could any number of clam or scallop. I don’t know how this pertains to artifacts though!

 

[Old Pueblo]

Heres some glycymeris shell jewelry info from Archaeology Southwest. You can see some for sure glycymeris shells in there. Im a desert dweller, so I dont know much about marine wildlife, so Ill let you guys be the judge on what kind of shell this is.

https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/2017/09/25/hands-on-archaeology-how-to-make-a-shell-bracelet/

 

[Old Pueblo]

If you google this "Glycymeris multicostata" and look in "Images", you can see some very similar looking glycymeris shells. Apparently, there are different kinds of them.

 

[Old Pueblo]

I also came across this while looking at some sea shell stuff: Cocopah Beads and Books: Shell Beads at Pueblo Bonito

The red stone piece I have looks very similar to some of the illustrations you see, although the artifacts in the illustrations are said to have been made of shell, not stone.

 

[coosakid]

I'd love to find something different like that I've never found any beads or pottery really

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[RGINN]

Wow, that's a cool find.