FIG. 6. — A, Beads from the Vršnik anthropomorphic vessel in a string, as displayed on the exhibition in the Štip museum. The rectangles designate the magnified details of the string; B, detail of the string, showing tubular beads – ovoid (the first on the top, and two on the bottom) and cylindrical (the second from the top); C, a detail of the string with a discoid bead; D, a detail of the string with cylindrical beads with characteristic sinusoidal ends originating from the lines of growth stagnation in scaphopod shells; E, Antalis vulgaris (da Costa, 1778), the line of growth stagnation is in the middle of the shell; F, G, Tritia neritea (Linnaeus, 1758) beads; H, a detail of the string with two biconical stone/mineral beads between a cylindrical (first on the right) and an ovoid bead. Scale bars: A, 2 cm; B, 1 cm; E, 5 mm; F-H, 1 cm. Photos credits: Jugoslav Pendić (A-D, F-H); Raymond Huet (E; http://www.animalbase.uni-goettingen.de/zooweb/servlet/AnimalBase/home/ picture?id=9128, last consultation on 22 February 2021).

Published as part of Dimitrijević, Vesna, Naumov, Goce, Fidanoski, Ljubo & Stefanović, Sofija, 2021, A string of marine shell beads from the Neolithic site of Vršnik (Tarinci, Ovče pole), and other marine shell ornaments in the Neolithic of North Macedonia, pp. 57-70 in Anthropozoologica 56 (4) on page 64, DOI: 10.5252/anthropozoologica2021v56a4, http://zenodo.org/record/4604799