11.13 Necklaces made from bivalves and Tertiary tusk shell fossils

Besides perforated animal teeth, our Gravettian sites also throw up the fossilized shells of Tertiary molluscs, which strung together on a piece of twine make complete necklaces.

 

Exhibit type: original

Archaeological site: Pavlov I (Pavlov near Dolní Věstonice, Moravia)

Photo: Buga