Personal Ornaments in Prehistory

This brilliant book emphasizes how and why the human relationship with ornaments developed and continued over tens of thousands of years from the hunter-gatherer life to urban elites, from the use of natural resources to complex technologies.It is based on evidence from archaeological sites across Turkey, the Near East, Greece, the Balkans, and beyond.Chapter 2, Personal ornaments: why are they important in prehistory?, underscores the usefulness of personal ornaments from archaeological excavations for not only studying the materials and technology, but also past identities and relationships, as well as socio-economic matters.These seemingly indisputable issues still require educing in current academic research.The author criticizes terminology that "pre-interprets" ornaments as well as imprecise typologies.She underlines that using bead typologies based on shape as the only or primary category, still common among researchers, is an outdated approach

Bronze · Bronze Age · Ornaments · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies