Abstract
Since the 1990s, archaeological publications concerned with Palaeolithic personal ornaments have diversified. This proliferation has resulted in an intense exploration of the multiple roles, whether symbolic, cultural or social, that these items might have played in prehistoric groups. As a result of this process, there is now a broad consensus that these body adornments are important for exploring the origins of cognitive, artistic and symbolic behavior from an evolutionary perspective. This view contrasts with the conceptualization of Palaeolithic ornaments prevalent during the greater part of the twentieth century. At that time, these objects were rarely considered in debates concerning human evolution, art and symbolism. To explain this shift in the understanding of beads, pendants and other similar artifacts, we explore in this paper the history and the epistemology of the concept of ‘ornament’ in the field of Palaeolithic archaeology. In particular, we analyse the factors underlying why the same kinds of objects have been historically described in very diverse ways. We conclude by pointing out some of the epistemological challenges posed by the current revalorization of personal ornaments.
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Research for this paper was supported by the Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada), the University of Victoria (Canada) and the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (France). We are grateful to those colleagues who offer assistance with our research on personal ornamentations, including Manuel R. González Morales, Randall White, Rudolph Botha, Jean Clottes, Margaret Conkey and, especially, Iain Davidson. The final version of the paper has greatly benefited from the critical comments of the editors of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory and two anonymous reviewers.
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Abadía, O.M., Nowell, A. Palaeolithic Personal Ornaments: Historical Development and Epistemological Challenges. J Archaeol Method Theory 22, 952–979 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-014-9213-z
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