Making ties and social identities: Drawing connections between PPNB communities as based on shell bead typology.

ABSTRACT: People tend to belong to multiple social circles, which construct and reflect a person's social identity. Group affiliation is embodied and may be expressed by personal adornment. Personal adornment in general has multiple functions in human societies, among them the assimilation and transmission of different aspects of personal and collective, social and cultural identity. Beads in general, including shell beads, often constitute parcels of composite adornment, and as such are used in different configurations to portray these messages. The shared use of similar bead types by different individuals and communities indicates the mutual affiliation of the sharing parties to the same cultural circles and reflects social ties and relationships. The Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) period in the L

SUBMITTER: Schechter HC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10684082 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature