Nikitin Yu.G., Sayenko E.M., Lutaenko K.A.
Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 2016; 20(2): 55-80
Freshwater and marine mollusks fauna from the archaeological site Chernyatino-2 in Primorye and its paleoecological and taphonomic features are studied, and its paleoeconomical significance is discussed. Two species of freshwater bivalves ( Dahurinaia sp., Middendorffinaia sujfunensis Moskvicheva et Starobogatov, 1973) and three species of freshwater gastropods ( Cipangopaludina sujfunensis Moskvicheva, 1979, «Parajuga subtegulata» Prozorova et Starobogatov, 2004, Lymnaea (Radix) sp.) are found. Residents of the early Medieval horizon used local river mollusks not only as an easily available protein addition for their diet, but also for a variety of ornamentations and accessories. Among marine mollusks, six species of bivalves - Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793), Mizuhopecten yessoensis (Jay, 1857), Chlamys farreri (Jones et Preston, 1904), Glycymeris yessoensis (Sowerby III, 1889), Spisula sachalinensis (Schrenck, 1861), Ruditapes philippinarum (Adams et Reeve, 1850) - and one species of gastropod, Cryptonatica janthostoma (Deshayes, 1839), are identified. They are common shallow-water species in Primorye coastal zone, but the number of excavated shells is not significant; marks of heat processing on the shells reveal their food utilization. In general, the studied molluscan fauna belongs to the Bohai period, except for one finding in a Bronze age horizon.
