New finds of Upper Palaeolithic decorative objects from Pedmostí, Czech Republic

• Autores: Rebecca Farbstein, Jirí Svoboda
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 81, Nº 314, 2007, págs. 856-864
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Two new examples of decorative art have turned up at the Gravettian site of Pedmostí, 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 authors speculate that the two pieces may have come from a single larger decorated object. The grids themselves join a growing repertoire of patterns known from Upper Palaeolithic society, but their role remains enigmatic: counting, calendars or ornament? Art or science?