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. The exotic origin and labour and skill invested in their production may have conferred value on them or added to it and their animal origin was considered of special significance. Specific forms conveyed information on status and/or social identity (membership of kin or social group, etc.) and their white colour probably had more than mere aesthetic significance.
Keywords:
Technological choices / Starcevo-Koro-Cris culture / Personal ornaments / Osseous raw materials / Aesthetic choices
TY - JOUR
AU - Vitezović, Selena
PY - 2012
UR - http://rai.ai.ac.rs/handle/123456789/166
AB - 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. The exotic origin and labour and skill invested in their production may have conferred value on them or added to it and their animal origin was considered of special significance. Specific forms conveyed information on status and/or social identity (membership of kin or social group, etc.) and their white colour probably had more than mere aesthetic significance.
PB - Univerza v Ljubljani
T2 - Documenta Praehistorica
T1 - The white beauty - Starčevo culture jewellery
EP - 226
IS - 1
SP - 215
VL - 39
DO - 10.4312/dp.39.15
ER -
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Vitezović, S.. (2012). The white beauty - Starčevo culture jewellery. in Documenta Praehistorica
Univerza v Ljubljani., 39(1), 215-226.
https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.39.15
Vitezović S. The white beauty - Starčevo culture jewellery. in Documenta Praehistorica. 2012;39(1):215-226.
doi:10.4312/dp.39.15 .
Vitezović, Selena, "The white beauty - Starčevo culture jewellery" in Documenta Praehistorica, 39, no. 1 (2012):215-226,
https://doi.org/10.4312/dp.39.15 . .
