For our purposes, the general constituents of a châine opératoire for female figurines might include the following, keeping in mind as previously stated that archaeologists usually address the components in reverse order
- Cultural assumptions about women
- Beliefs about the relationship between materials, representational acts, representational constructs and social/supernatural efficacy
- Choice and acquisition of raw material
- Choice of subject matter
- Organization of production, (social, temporal and spatial)
- Combination of gestures and tools into techniques for figurine production that are coherent with the encompassing, regional technical system and that enable
- Representation of desired signifiers of social identity, age, reproductive status, supernatural associations, etc.
- Use of the female representations in (socially, esthetically and cosmologically) meaningful acts.
- Disposition of the figurines based on ideas about their residual power and efficacy.