Publication details
New finds of Upper Palaeolithic decorative objects from Předmostí, Czech Republic.
| Authors | |
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Antiquity |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology |
| Keywords | Upper Paleolithic, Gravettian, Czech Republic, mammoth, reindeer, decorative art, art, grid pattern |
| Description | Two new examples of decorative art have turned up at the Gravettian site of Předmostí, dating to the twenty-sixth to twenty-fifth millennium BP: rectilinear grid patterns are executed on one side of flat bones, probably of reindeer. The grids themselves join a growing repertoire of patterns known from Upper Paleolithic society, but their role remains enigmatic: counting, calendars or ornament. |