Abstract
This study is focused on "shell anthropology" in the use-wear analysis context. There are shown various types of symbolic messages of shell beads (and beads made from other material as well).
Authors aim is to give information about flint tools used for working with shells. Knowing the "shell patterns" of traces we are able to recognize better the progress of our prehistoric ancestors work, the meaning of this activity in their life and other interesting dates there are not possible to get in any other way.