摘要：This is a special issue on personal ornaments in early prehistory. There are 12 contributions:
• Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E. and Bosch, M.D.: Humans’ Earliest Personal Ornaments: An Introduction
• Steele, T.E., Álvarez-Fernández, E., and Hallett-Desguez, E.: A Review of Shells as Personal Ornaments during
the African Middle Stone Age
• Bosch, M.D., Buck, L., and Strauss, A.: Location, Location, Location: Investigating Perforation Locations in
Tritia gibbosula Shells at Ksâr ‘Akil (Lebanon) Using Micro-CT Data
• Peresani, M., Forte, M., Quaggiotto, E., Colonese, A.C., Romandini, M., Cilli, C., and Giacobini, G.: Marine
and Freshwater Shell Exploitation in the Early Upper Paleolithic: Re-Examination of the Assemblages from
Fumane Cave (NE Italy)
• Langley, M.C. and O’Connor, S.: 40,000 Years of Ochre Utilization in Timor-Leste: Powders, Prehensile Traces,
and Body Painting
• Bar-Yosef Mayer, D.E.: Upper Paleolithic Explorers: The Geographic Sources of Shell Beads in Early Upper
Paleolithic Assemblages in Israel
• Álvarez-Fernández, A., Barrera, I., and Fernández-Gomez, Ma
.J.: Living among Personal Ornaments during
the Magdalenian: Some Reflections about Perforated Marine Shells in Cantabrian Spain
• Rigaud, S., Costamagno, S., Pétillon, J.M., Charlard, P., Laroulandie, V., and Langlais, M.: Settlement Dynamic
and Beadwork: New Insights on the Late Upper Paleolithic Craft Activities
• Laporte, L. and Dupont, C.: Personal Adornments and Objects of Ornamentation: Two Case Studies From
Hunter-Gatherer Burials in France (La Vergne) and Argentina (Arroyo Seco II)
• Balme, J. and O’Connor, S.: Bead Making in Aboriginal Australia From the Deep Past to European Arrival:
Materials, Methods, and Meanings
• Perlès, C.: Cultural Implications of Uniformity in Ornament Assemblages: Paleolithic and Mesolithic Ornaments
from Franchthi Cave, Greece
• Borić, D. and Cristiani, E.: Taking Beads Seriously: Prehistoric Forager Ornamental Traditions in Southeastern
Europe
This special issue is guest-edited by Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer (Steinhardt Museum of Natural History and
Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University) and Marjolein D. Bosch (McDonald Institute for Archaeological
Research, University of Cambridge). This is article #1 of 12.
