Table 5. Non-food mollusk shell finds from the Pleistocene deposits of the 1963 excavations at Grotta del Cavallo in storage at the Taranto depot of Apulia’s Direction of Antiquities (a).
| TAXON | B-I | B-IIa | B-IIb | D-I | D-II | F-II/I | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aporrhais (perforated) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Cerithium (perforated) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Columbella (perforated) | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Cyclonassa (perforated) (b) | – | 11 | 13 | 6 | 8 | – | 38 |
| Dentalium (perforated) (c) | – | – | – | – | 22 | – | 22 |
| Gibbula (?) (perforated) (d) | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Pectunculus (large, unperforated) | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 2 |
| Pectunculus (rolled “boomerangs”) (unperforated) | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | 5 |
| Pectunculus (small, rolled) (unperforated) | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 3 |
| Pectunculus (very small, unperforated) | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Nassa (perforated) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Nassa (unperforated) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Natica (unperforated) | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Fossil (?) shell fragments | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 |
| TOTAL | 5 | 17 | 14 | 8 | 37 | 3 | 84 |
(a) Genus names as used by the excavator and as entered in the collection’s inventory kept at the Taranto head office of Apulia’s Direction of Antiquities;
(b) Includes two specimens, one from level D-I (scheda No. 355) and another from level D-II (scheda No. 353), removed for radiocarbon dating (according to a hand-written addition to the scheda, on March 9, 2009 and by or care of T. Higham);
(c) Includes one specimen from level D-II (scheda No. 353) removed for radiocarbon dating (according to a hand-written addition to the scheda, on March 9, 2009 and by or care of T. Higham);
(d) Classified as Cyclonassa in the Taranto inventory (scheda No. 355).