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11.9 Small ceramic statues of animals
These exhibits are a selection from a whole series of zoomorphic sculptures which were modelled and subsequently fired at the Gravettian settlements beneath the Pavlov Hills, and which make this…
11.10 Finely carved “diadems”
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…
11.11 Decorated bone artefacts
Characteristic geometric shapes not only occur on decorative items, but also take up the available surfaces on some weapons and tools, which might thereby acquire symbolic significance.
11.12 Pendants and small ivory ornaments
Ornaments carved from mammoth ivory require very delicate and precise work. They come in a wide spectrum of forms, from abstract to zoomorphic and anthropomorphic motifs, and tend to be fitted…
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.
11.14 Fragment of a ground stone disc
Although the technique of stone grinding is generally associated with the Neolithic, it had already been developed at the beginning of the Upper Palaeolithic. At the Gravettian sites in Moravia,…