personal ornamentation (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Personal ornaments play an important role in our understanding of human cultural and behavioral change during the Upper Paleolithic. Although small, ornaments are often well-preserved, occur in large quantities, vary across space and time, and can shed light on intangible aspects of human lifeways (e.g., identity, relationships, movement, status). However,...
Hands across the water: Exploring maritime networks in Pleistocene Wallacea (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Seacountries of Northern Australia and Island Neighbours", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Once characterised as a cultural backwater due to the lack of traditional markers of modern human behaviour, the last few decades have seen Southeast Asia’s archaeological record re-evaluated following finds of the world’s earliest evidence for rock art and Pleistocene fishing technology. Now research in the islands of...