Prestige technologies

Prestige technologies is a social and technological complex whose primary goal is to demontrate the wealth, prestige, special status or power of a person, or group of people. In some cases it is prestige technologies that give developement to practical ones: for instance, these are technology of grinding and polishing stones, the manufacture of ceramic dishes, etc.

In Mal'ta collection prestige technologies include ornamental discs, discoids, plates and items of triangular forms. 

Categories

Ornamented discs, discoids and plates

The collection contains ornamented items from the storages of the State Hermitage Museum, the Kunstkamera and the State Historical Museum 

Rods

Publications

Lbova L., Tabarev A. Cultura, iskusstvo, ritual. Proishozhdenie i rannie etapy. Novosibirsk, 2010

Hayden B. Practical and Prestige Technologies: The Evolution of Material Systems // Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. – 1998. – Vol.5. – No.1. – P.1-55.