Research on prehistoric personal ornaments has focused on patterns in materials, technology and processes of change but struggles to place human thought and action at the centre of interpretation. However, striking examples of variations in production, altered and mended ornaments and different levels of skill visible in the quality of finished products, and subsequent adjustments made to them are a recurring feature of archaeological ornament assemblages. In addition to regional data on preferences for types and materials, the movement of ornaments between locations and interregional influences, this evidence provides crucial clues about choices, individual makers, and perceptions of the learning process. This article asks to what extent decision-making, individual levels of skill and the expectations surrounding learning or knowledge transmission can be successfully identified and interpreted using the often-limited information available from prehistoric assemblages. Examples taken from Neolithic assemblages in Turkey are used to explore the mutually shaping human-ornament relationship, intention, expectations of normality and divergence from expectation in the production of ornament assemblages. Ornaments are found to be subject to structured and unstructured adjustments within complex biographies and an active area of individual interpretation of shared concepts.

对史前个人装饰品的研究主要集中在材料、技术和变化过程中的图案，但努力将人类的思想和行为置于解释的中心。然而，生产变化的显着例子、装饰品的改动和修补以及成品质量中可见的不同技能水平，以及随后对其进行的调整是考古装饰品组合的一个反复出现的特征。除了关于类型和材料偏好、装饰品在不同地点之间的移动和区域间影响的区域数据外，这些证据还提供了关于选择、个人制造商和学习过程的看法的重要线索。本文询问决策制定的程度，个人技能水平和对学习或知识传播的期望可以使用史前组合中通常有限的信息来成功识别和解释。取自土耳其新石器时代组合的例子被用来探索在装饰组合的生产中相互塑造的人与装饰关系、意图、对常态的期望以及与期望的差异。装饰品被发现在复杂的传记和对共享概念的个人解释的活跃领域中受到结构化和非结构化的调整。取自土耳其新石器时代组合的例子被用来探索在装饰组合的生产中相互塑造的人与装饰关系、意图、对常态的期望以及与期望的差异。装饰品被发现在复杂的传记和对共享概念的个人解释的活跃领域中受到结构化和非结构化的调整。取自土耳其新石器时代组合的例子被用来探索在装饰组合的生产中相互塑造的人与装饰关系、意图、对常态的期望以及与期望的差异。装饰品被发现在复杂的传记和对共享概念的个人解释的活跃领域中受到结构化和非结构化的调整。