İnsanın Kimlik İnşasında Maddi Bir Varlık Olarak Boncuk
Bead as a Material Object in the Formation of Human Identity

Summary/Abstract: Human beings have created culture and civilization through the items produced by themselves in virtue of art and craft notion as well as the pre-existing substances on the earth. Bead is a small but highly active object that sheds light on the relationship between humans and matters in the prehistoric period. The earliest beads are dated to about 100.000 BCE & 75.000 BCE. It generally helps to analyze the perception of human history particularly in the interpreting of cultural development, socialization, economy and mental fields. The aim of the study is to interpret the role of materials in the construction of human identity through the beads. In our study, at first, the role of the bead in the fields of religion, language, tradition, status, gender, economy, trade, art, technology and socialization in the prehistoric period was explained, then, the contribution of the bead in the process of identity-building of the human being has been expressed. Bead is one of the oldest objects that have an influence on human identity. Beads are thought to be one of the earliest examples of jewelry. However, in addition to being a jewelry item, it has turned into an object that reveals the individual and social identities of people by carrying many abstract meanings. In this study, the literature review on the beads is examined by using a qualitative / historical approach. In addition to the literature review, the findings obtained from archaeological excavations and the different results received by the anthropologists and the archaeologists on the beads are scanned.

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