These delicately carved curved oval headdresses or “diadems” are covered in geometric forms and variously composed gently curved lines. If they really were worn as a head decoration, which is indicated by their curvature and perforations at the end, then these selfsame ornamental patterns, so typical of the Pavlov I site, may have expressed the group identity of the wearer.
Material: mammoth ivory
Dimensions (length): 157 mm, 106 mm, 100 mm and 82 mm
Exhibit type: copy of original (plaster)
Archaeological site: Pavlov I (Pavlov near Dolní Věstonice, Moravia)
Collection: Institute of Archaeology of the CAS, Brno v.v.i., Czech Republic
