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Personal ornaments, Neolithic groups and social identities: some insights into Northern Italy
Documenta Praehistorica, 2012 Personal ornaments are often used to display information about the person wearing them – identity, group or individual, status, current role. In this paper, I analyse ornaments from osseous raw materials from Early and Middle Neolithic sites in Serbia ...
Roberto Micheli
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Ornaments reveal resistance of North European cultures to the spread of farming.
PLoS ONE, 2015 The transition to farming is the process by which human groups switched from hunting and gathering wild resources to food production. Understanding how and to what extent the spreading of farming communities from the Near East had an impact on indigenous
Solange Rigaud +2 more
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Personal ornaments and shell artifacts
The personal ornaments identified at Klimonas are very diverse. Raw materials, including shells, bone, teeth and stones, were locally acquired on the island. A study of the manufacturing process indicates that shell and stone ornaments were the result of domestic productions performed in the village.
Rigaud, Solange
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, 2019 A number of Middle Stone Age (MSA) assemblages in northern Africa, as well as a few in South Africa and the eastern Mediterranean, preserve small mollusk shells, most notably estuarine and marine members of the sub- family Nassariinae (e.g., Nassarius kraussianus, N. circumcinctus, and Tritia gibbosula).
Steele, Teresa E. +2 more
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Out of Africa: modern human origins special feature: additional evidence on the use of personal ornaments in the Middle Paleolithic of North Africa. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2009 International audienceRecent investigations into the origins of symbolism indicate that personal ornaments in the form of perforated marine shell beads were used in the Near East, North Africa, and SubSaharan Africa at least 35 ka earlier than any ...
d'Errico F +8 more
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Deciphering meanings embedded in the cultural ornaments of Guji Oromo women of Southern Ethiopia
Heliyon, 2021 This study is aimed at deciphering meanings embedded in the cultural ornaments of Guji Oromo women of Southern Ethiopia. Relevant data were collected through observation, interview, and focus group discussion which involved 30 participants. The data were
Alemu Disassa Mulleta, Kedir Muda
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Brilliance and colours: Personal ornaments in the Neolithic
Prehistoric personal ornaments (pendants, beads, bracelets, etc.) are often assumed to have served as amulets, i.e., that they had prophylactic, apotropaic, curative role, and that they also served as status and prestige items. Usually it is assumed that the rarity of the raw material determined their value, i.e., that the ornaments from certain ...
Vitezović, Selena
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Journal of Lithic Studies, 2021 Fluorite ornaments have been recorded in different sites of Europe since Upper Paleolithic. Due to its visual appearance and physical properties, some translucent or transparent mineralogies like fluorite were searched for or casually acquired by late ...
José Ángel Garrido-Cordero +4 more
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Quaternary, 2023 Personal ornaments play an important role in our understanding of human cultural and behavioral change during the Upper Paleolithic, providing insights into intangible aspects of human cultural behavior. Some ornament forms are better studied than others,
Flavia Venditti +4 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 Personal ornaments are key archaeological remains to investigate prehistoric symbolic systems, and, whenever hard animal remains were used for their manufacture, explore topics on the status attributed to faunal resources by past human groups.
Yue Zhang +12 more
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