Paper short abstract:

In Moravia (Czech Republic), in the period around 30-20,000 years ago, prehistoric people created art artefacts and ornaments from different materials. It is possible to detect a specific local style as part of this artefacts characteristic of the mammoth hunting culture of the Gravettian?

Paper long abstract:

In Moravia (Czech Republic), in the period around 30-20,000 years ago, open-air sites (Dolní Věstonice, Pavlov, Předmostí) have been discovered where prehistoric people created art artefacts and ornaments from different materials - ivory, bone, antler, fired clay, shell, stone. These are non-utilitarian artifacts without visible adjustment for the function, but also artefacts that have a recognizable adaptation - which permits to detect the original function - for example personal ornaments for body wear. These finished objects and their fragments which have been preserved until today could have been completed by the same quantity of objects in other non-durable materials in which these latter materials could have been part of the final form. The set of ornaments found is characterized by a large variability, but also by the standartisation of the concrete forms. Likewise for the portable art objects and engravings. It is possible to detect a specific local style as part of this set? To what extent will this style be characteristic of the mammoth hunting culture of the Gravettian?