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Archaeologists have identified a plethora of beads fashioned from Tritia gibbosula shells in many Middle Stone Age (MSA) sites across western North Africa, including El Mnasra Cave, Morocco. In a 2021 paper, El Mehdi Sehasseh et al. attribute these artifacts’ apparent blank to the evolution and propagation of symbolic behavior (e.g., use of personal ornaments) in humans and the widespread availability of T. gibbosula during the MSA.

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