Interactions, communication and tradition: The personal ornaments of Suluin cave (Antalya, Turkey) in late Neolithic context

Bodily boundaries transgressed: corporal alteration through ornamentation in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic at Boncuklu Tarla, Türkiye

“…Although labrets and ear ornaments were common in the ornamentation practices of the Early Neolithic in some regions of South-west Asia, there is no evidence of their use at the Neolithic sites of central Anatolia. They are, however, recorded in small numbers at sites around the western Anatolian peninsula, mostly in forms unfamiliar in the east (Baysal 2019(Baysal , 2022, and in the Aegean, where some examples show greater resemblance to the early eastern artefacts (Ifantidis 2019: 73). Ornaments associated with body perforation are by no means an omnipresent element of Neolithic ornamentation practices and have not yet been linked directly with the westward spread of Neolithic populations and lifeways into Europe.…”

“…Small, disc or nail-like objects similar to modern and ethnographic examples of labretsworn through piercings beneath the lower lip-are well documented in the material culture of Neolithic South-west Asia (10 000-6 000 BC, Aurenche & Kozlowski 2005;Baysal 2019) but contextual evidence for their use in the early Neolithic has been lacking. As a result, no standardised terminology for these artefacts currently exists.…”