The earliest evidence of coloured ornaments in China: The ochred ostrich eggshell beads from Shuidonggou Locality 2

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2017.07.002

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	The earliest evidence of coloured ornaments in China: The ochred ostrich eggshell beads from Shuidonggou Locality 2
	Pitarch Marti, Africa 1,2; Wei, Yi 3,4; Gao, Xing 4,5; Chen, Fuyou 4; d'Errico, Francesco 1,6
刊名	JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
	2017-12-01
卷号	48 页码:102-113
关键词	Body Ornaments Ochre Symbolism Pigmental Compound Sem-eds Mu-raman Spectroscopy
DOI	10.1016/j.jaa.2017.07.002
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	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.
WOS关键词	MIDDLE STONE-AGE ; SOUTH-AFRICA ; SHELL BEADS ; PERSONAL ORNAMENTS ; BLOMBOS CAVE ; NORTH CHINA ; NASSARIUS-KRAUSSIANUS ; ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE ; SITE ; BEHAVIOR
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Archaeology
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000418315000007
资助机构	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)
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://124.16.247.212/handle/311034/8061]
专题	古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_图书馆1
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.