Abstract
Shells were collected and transformed into ornaments by the first Homo sapiens and accompanied their evolution over the millennia. They were more than mere elements that decorated the human body and held multiple social and cultural meanings. That is why shell adornments have remarkable importance for reconstructing aspects related to exchange networks, social hierarchies or geographical boundaries of different cultural groups. This study aims to complete the state of knowledge regarding the ornaments used by the human communities of Europe in the 6th-5th millennia BC along the Lower Danube. We review the ornaments from 22 settlements and 19 necropolises from various aspects: the raw materials and their sources of procurement, the chaîne opératoires and the ways they were worn. Finally, we compared the ornaments from settlements and funerary contexts and discussed their possible significance against the background of raw material availability and typological categories.
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