Resumen de New finds of Upper Palaeolithic decorative objects from Pedmostí, Czech Republic
Rebecca Farbstein, Jirí Svoboda
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?
