Lutaenko K. A., Sayenko E. M., Nikitin Y.G.
Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 2021; 25(1-2): 71–97
Data on freshwater and marine mollusks from the medieval archaeological site Novogordeevskoye-2 (Primorye) obtained during the 1971-1973 excavations are provided. Four species of marine bivalve mollusks from three families are found: Glycymeris yessoensis (Sowerby III, 1889), Anadara ( Scapharca ) talmiensis Kalishevich, 1976, Anadara ( Scapharca ) cf. kagoshimensis (Tokunaga, 1906) and Mactra ( Mactra ) quadrangularis Deshayes in Reeve, 1854. Among freshwater mollusks, two bivalve species and one gastropod species are collected: the pearl mussel Dahurinaia dahurica (Middendorff, 1850), the naiad Nodularia douglasiae (Griffith et Pidgeon, 1833), and the snail Cipangopaludina sujfunensis Moskvicheva, 1979. Finds of mollusks date back mainly to the late Bohai time or early post-Bohai. The importance of molluscs for the early medieval population and ways of delivery of marine molluscs are discussed, and a brief comparison of the composition of the malacofauna with other medieval sites of Primorye is carried out.
