New insights into the Upper Palaeolithic of the Caucasus through the study of personal ornaments. Teeth and bones pendants from Satsurblia and Dzudzuana caves (Imereti, Georgia) [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 The region of western Georgia (Imereti) in the Southern Caucasus has been a major geographic corridor for human migrations during the Middle and Upper Paleolithic.
José-Miguel Tejero +7 more
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Symbolic innovation at the onset of the Upper Paleolithic in Eurasia shown by the personal ornaments from Tolbor-21 (Mongolia) [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Figurative depictions in art first occur ca. 50,000 years ago in Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Considered by most as an advanced form of symbolic behavior, they are restricted to our species.
Solange Rigaud +16 more
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Gravettian and Epigravettian personal ornaments in Eastern Carpathians
Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021 The Upper Palaeolithic in the eastern Carpathians is characterized by a high density of sites, mostly attributed chronologically to the Gravettian or the Epigravettian.
Cârciumaru, M. +5 more
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Personal Ornaments and Burial Rites in Prehistory
Etnoantropološki ProblemiArchaeological burial contexts are among particularly attractive topics for both experts – archaeologists, and wider audiences. The reasons behind this are partially the rich, attractive portable finds that are usually associated with these contexts ...
Selena Vitezović
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Mobility and social identity in the Mid Upper Paleolithic: New personal ornaments from Poiana Cireșului (Piatra Neamț, Romania). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Most of the Paleolithic art and ornaments discovered in Romania come from the site of Poiana Cireșului. Four Paleolithic layers have been studied at this site-the oldest one belongs to the Early Gravettian period between 30 ka and 31 ka BP. The ornaments
Elena-Cristina Nițu +5 more
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Multivariate analyses of Aurignacian and Gravettian personal ornaments support cultural continuity in the Early Upper Palaeolithic [PDF]
PLoS ONETraditionally, lithic artefacts have served as the principal proxy for the definition of archaeological cultures in the Upper Paleolithic. However, the culture-historical framework in use, constructed unsystematically and shaped by regional research ...
Francesco d’Errico +5 more
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The shaping of social and symbolic capital during the transition to farming in the Western Mediterranean: Archaeological network analyses of pottery decorations and personal ornaments. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Storing information and circulating it between individuals and groups is a critical behaviour that signals a tipping point in our evolutionary history.
Pereira D, Manen C, Rigaud S.
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Early Middle Stone Age personal ornaments from Bizmoune Cave, Essaouira, Morocco. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2021 Shell beads from Bizmoune Cave (Morocco) show the early appearance and continuity of symbolic behavior among early Homo sapiens.
Sehasseh EM +25 more
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Open Archaeology, 2023 This article studies the discoid Didacna sp. shell beads discovered at Kaylu, a Middle Holocene burial site located in Southern Turkmenistan. Microscopic, morphometric, spectrometric, and SEM analyses were carried out on the material to identify how the ...
Rigaud Solange +10 more
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Similarities and Differences Between Italian Early Neolithic Groups: The Role of Personal Ornaments
Open Archaeology, 2021 The Early Neolithic is an interesting period for observing the changes that took place in material culture and also in the ideology that influenced the production of personal ornaments.
Micheli Roberto
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