Shells As Evidence of the Migration of Early Culture By J Wilfrid Jackson
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C. In connection with the above it is of interest to note that the cowr)- is frequently associated with pre-d)-nastic burials in Egj'pt. The numerous discoveries of cowries detailed above serve to show the migrations or intercourse of early peoples. The)' are not to be regarded as evidence of the shells, even the smaller kind, having been employed as currenc}- in the localities where they were found, nor indeed are they to be looked upon as having been worn from purely jesthetic motives. Their ...presence maj^ be explained by the part cowries played in early times as symbolic of the generative forces of nature. The shell itself was not worshipped, but rather regarded as an attribute of some goddess. It was due probably to this fact that the cowry was known to the ancients under the appellation of " Concha Venerea. " — the shell of Venus.^' As pointed out by Dr. J. C. Melvill, ""' the generic name of between ihe Lower and Upjier raktolilhic. The Lower Pal. Colilhic, he suggests, may be known as the Palaeanthropic, the Upper as the commence- menl of the Neoanthropic, Age.
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