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| The earliest evidence of coloured ornaments in China: The ochred ostrich eggshell beads from Shuidonggou Locality 2 | |
| Pitarch Marti, Africa1,2; Wei, Yi3,4; Gao, Xing4,5; Chen, Fuyou4; d'Errico, Francesco1,6 | |
| 2017-12-01 | |
| 发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
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| 卷号 | 48页码:102-113 |
| 文章类型 | Article |
| 摘要 | Beads are a communication technology used by humans to transmit information on the wearer identity to members of the same or neighbouring groups by means of a shared symbolic language. Here we focus on the earliest evidence from Eastern Asia of a communication technology - the production of artificially coloured beads - that has allowed humans to further complexify the messages conveyed by personal ornaments, and associate, to some extent, the performance characteristics of beads and pigment. We study six ochred ostrich eggshell beads (OESB) from Shuidonggou Locality 2 (SDG2), Cultural Layer (CL) 2, China, dated to c. 31 kyr cal BP. Analysis of the beads manufacturing technique, size, and wear, combined with SEM-EDS and mu-Raman spectroscopy (mu-RS) study of well-preserved red residues sampled on the beads and sediment from CL2 indicate that these beads come from body ornaments and that red residues are the remnant of a pigmented compound coating the beads at the time they were worn by the SDG Palaeolithic visitors. SDG2-CL2 red stained OESBs thus represent, with the red stained bone disk from Xiaogushan, the earliest consistent evidence of pigment use for symbolic activities from China. Results also identify variations in the composition of the pigmental compound used to colour the beads that closely match differences in bead technology, size, and style. We argue that such a hitherto unknown consistency in bead production and decoration may reflect technological, morphological, and pigment coating standardisation at the individual level, standardisation in technology associated with variation in morphology and pigment at the group level, and substantial differences in these three domains at inter-group level. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
| 关键词 | Body Ornaments Ochre Symbolism Pigmental Compound Sem-eds Mu-raman Spectroscopy |
| WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Social Sciences ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jaa.2017.07.002 |
| 关键词[WOS] | MIDDLE STONE-AGE ; SOUTH-AFRICA ; SHELL BEADS ; PERSONAL ORNAMENTS ; BLOMBOS CAVE ; NORTH CHINA ; NASSARIUS-KRAUSSIANUS ; ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE ; SITE ; BEHAVIOR |
| 收录类别 | SSCI ; AHCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 项目资助者 | European Research Council(249587) ; LaScArBx, a research programme - Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR), France(ANR-10-LABX-52) ; Chinese-French collaborative programme Cai Yuanpei ; National Natural Science Foundation of China(41672024) ; Agency for Management of University and Research Grants of the Government of Catalonia, Spain(2014 BP-A 00122) |
| WOS研究方向 | Anthropology ; Archaeology |
| WOS类目 | Anthropology ; Archaeology |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000418315000007 |
| 引用统计 | |
| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/8061 |
| 专题 | 中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后） |
| 作者单位 | 1.Univ Bordeaux, UMR 5199, PACEA, Prehist Actuel Culture Environm & Anthropol, Batiment B18,Allee Geoffroy St Hilaire, F-50023 Pessac, France 2.Autonomous Univ Barcelona UAB, Grp Recerca Aplicada Patrimoni Cultural GRAPAC, Dept Anim Biol Plant Biol & Ecol, Fac Biosci, Campus Bellaterra, Bellaterra 08193, Spain 3.Beijing Acad Sci & Technol, Beijing Museum Nat Hist, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Lab Human Evolut, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, 142 Xizhimenwai St,POB 643, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 5.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 6.Inst Univ Witwatersrand, DST NRF Ctr Excellence Palaeosci Evolutionary Stu, Private Bag 3, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Pitarch Marti, Africa,Wei, Yi,Gao, Xing,et al. The earliest evidence of coloured ornaments in China: The ochred ostrich eggshell beads from Shuidonggou Locality 2[J]. JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY,2017,48:102-113. |
| APA | Pitarch Marti, Africa,Wei, Yi,Gao, Xing,Chen, Fuyou,&d'Errico, Francesco.(2017).The earliest evidence of coloured ornaments in China: The ochred ostrich eggshell beads from Shuidonggou Locality 2.JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY,48,102-113. |
| MLA | Pitarch Marti, Africa,et al."The earliest evidence of coloured ornaments in China: The ochred ostrich eggshell beads from Shuidonggou Locality 2".JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY 48(2017):102-113. |
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