Culturing the Body

Benjamin Collins is affiliated with the Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, and the Department of Archaeology, University of Cape Town. His research explores social networks and connections among past forager societies.

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Foreword: Culturing Emergent Bodies

Rosemary Joyce



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Towards a Culturing of the Paleolithic Body

April Nowell and Benjamin Collins



Chapter 1. Enveloping Oneself in Others: Semiotic, Spatial, and Temporal Dimensions of Ostrich Eggshell Bead Use in Southern Africa

Peter J. Mitchell and Brian A. Stewart



Chapter 2. Manufacturing Social Landscapes: Bead Production, Exchange, and Social Connections at Grassridge Rockshelter, South Africa

Benjamin Collins, Amy Hatton, April Nowell, and Christopher J. H. Ames



Chapter 3. Perspectives on Stone Age Sociality: A New Role for Ostrich Eggshell Beads

Jennifer M. Miller



Chapter 4. A Shell Bead from a Faraway Ocean: Significance Assessment of a Single Indigenous Ornament from Southern Australia

Keryn Walshe



Chapter 5. Building identities and social organization throughout the Early Holocene: Interpreting the personal adornments of the last hunter-gatherers in Portugal

Lino André



Chapter 6. Beads on the edge of the world: Atlantic identity and sociality during the Upper Paleolithic of western Iberia

Nuno Bicho and Lino André



Chapter 7. Constructing Identity: Body decoration and modification in the Swabian Aurignacian

Ewa Dutkiewicz, Sibylle Wolf, Elizabeth C. Velliky, and Nicholas J. Conard



Chapter 8. What’s in a color? Ochre use in the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa

Tammy Hodgskiss



Chapter 9. The Best Dressed Hominin: Clothing, tanning and textile production in the Paleolithic

April Nowell and Aurora Skala



Conclusion: Culturing Bodies in the Past: Similarities Across Diversity

Benjamin Collins and April Nowell



Index