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Role of personal ornaments: Vlakno Cave (Croatia)

In an attempt to understand the culture and social behaviour of Mesolithic populations findings of personal ornaments are of particular importance. Personal ornaments in their formal expressions (sea shells and winkles, river snails, animal teeth, modified animal bones) not only point to the universal idea of decoration and aesthetic sensibility, but also reveal mutual contacts and communication paths. Vlakno Cave on Dugi Otok (Croatia) is one of the most prominent Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene sites discovered in Dalmatia recently. Research has been conducted from 2004 with interruptions, and depth of 5 m has been reached in 2013, to the layers belonging to the Early Epigravettian. Throughout many finds of personal ornaments in various strata it is possible to recognize changes in time regarding the type and number of finds. Perforated animal teeth, most of them deer canines, are gradually replaced by sea and river shells and snails. Almost 400 specimens of perforated teeth, shells and snails have been found so far, along with numerous unperforated ones, making Vlakno Cave one of the richest archaeological sites of personal ornaments on Eastern Adriatic coast. Analysis of these objects should show the behavioral change of Mesolithic population and its dependence on various activities.

Personal ornaments ; Mesolithic ; Vlakno cave

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