The question of identifying individuals in prehistory gave rise to several seminal works in the late 1970s and 1980s. Nearly 50 years later, where do we stand? From the Palaeolithic to the Metal Ages, how can we attempt to identify individuals through the remains and materials at our disposal? What methods can we use to do this? What are their conditions of use, their degrees of resolution, and more generally their advantages and limitations? By using them, what insights can we hope to gain into the social and economic organisations of past societies? Finally, how can we envisage the future of this ambitious but undoubtedly complex research topic?

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