| The investigation of the Abri Blanchard Aurignacian personal ornaments offers an opportunity to answer questions about how the people at this site constructed their social identities through their choices during the procurement of materials, manufacture, decoration, and use of personal ornaments. The importance of personal ornaments to the construction of social identity has long been understood by anthropologists, but Aurignacian personal ornaments have rarely been used to address questions of social identity due to the lack of burials. The methodology of chaine operatoire along with the theories of materiality, practice and agency, and technology can provide insight as to what aspects of the process that produced these personal ornaments were important at a regional level, a community level, and which ones the manufacturers could control themselves. |
