Social inequality in the Upper Palaeolithic: Personal ornaments from Saint-Germain-la-Rivière (Gironde, France)
THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA
The corpus
Technological attributes
FRAMEWORK OF COMPARISON AND REFERENCE
Comparative archaeological data
Regional environmental context
Ethnographic data on prestige goods
INTERPRETATIONS
Zoological characterisation
Rare and exotic character of the mortuary ornaments
Standardised character of the mortuary ornaments
The non-mortuary personal ornaments - the 1st Mirande necklace
The non-mortuary ornament items
Prestige goods and Palaeolithic cultures
