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Small-shell version of octopus lures. Upper image: an ethnographic example from Tonga, made with two cowrie shell plates (Cypraea tigris), each with drilled holes, bound onto a gray stone sinker, using plaited sennit fiber, in the collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, England. Middle and bottom rows: exterior and interior views of three cut and drilled dorsum pieces of Cypraea spp. shells of octopus lures (the ‘early from’ in the Marianas), excavated from the Mariana Islands, specifically from 1100 to 500 BCE at House of Taga (left), 1500 to 1100 BCE at Unai Bapot (center), and 1500 to 1100 BCE at House of Taga (right). Image credit: Carson & Hung, doi: 10.1080/00438243.2021.1930134.

3,500-Year-Old Octopus Lures Found on Mariana Islands of Tinian and Saipan

Aug 2, 2022 by News Staff

Starting as early as 1500 BCE in the Mariana Islands, people used distinctive rigging of cut and drilled pieces of cowrie shells, as parts of compound...