The word 'seashells' is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the shells of marine mollusks that can be found on beaches and in the ocean. It is commonly used to describe the shells themselves or as a part of a collection of shells. Example: I collected a variety of seashells during my vacation at the beach, including scallops, conch shells, and cowries.
Second, it was two pieces of engraved ochre that pointed at artistic production rather than the perforated seashells, as you state.
When Land Rover launched its new luxury Range Rover in Britain it spent nothing on mass marketing, but instead splashed out around £30 ($50) a head on mailing quirky gifts—seashells, chrysanthemums, maple leaves to 11,000 people who it had identified as potential buyers.
Now, the perforated seashells linking Blombos and the Grotte des Pigeons, a Moroccan cave of an even greater vintage, are quite important in tracing human development, as they may offer the earliest known evidence of a currency, but they do not bear any mark of artistic production.Ranko Bon Motovun, Istria, Croatia.
This is a number that describes how threatening acidification is to seashells and skeletons.
The reason is the discovery, in 2004, of some peculiar seashells of that age in Blombos, a seaside cave in South Africa.The shells are peculiar because they seem to have been fashioned into beads.
The use of seashells and of various semiprecious stones, including turquoise and lapis lazuli, indicates the existence of trade networks extending from the coast and perhaps also from Central Asia.
He noted that, given a choice between water (H2O) and carbonate (CO32−, a principal constituent of seashells), the isotope 18O shows a slight preference for the carbonate.
In contrast to the earliest forms of money, which were commodity moneys based on items such as seashells, tobacco, and precious-metal coin, practically all contemporary money takes the form of bank money, which consists of checks or drafts that function as commercial or central bank IOUs.
With its grey flanks spilling out either side of the retained brick screen, it was like a whale trying to hide behind a seashell.
Barrios said that, with your ear to the stone, "it was like listening to the inside of a seashell".
In the early 1980s (even before the infamous Iran-contra scandal), says Mr Bergman, Israel sold arms to revolutionary Iran as an operation known as "Seashell", in part to ensure that the war between Iran and Iraq would continue to weaken two enemies but also in a forlorn effort to win back some of the influence Israel had enjoyed in Tehran before the fall of the shah.
