UPPER PALEOLITHIC FIBER TECHNOLOGY - INTERLACED WOVEN FINDS FROM PAVLOV-I, CZECH-REPUBLIC, C 26,000 YEARS AGO

The later Palaeolithic sites of Moravia, the region of the Czech Repub lic west of Prague and north of Vienna, continue to provide remarkable new materials. To the art mobilier for which Dolni Vestonice and Pavl ov have been celebrated, there has recently been added the technologie s of groundstone and ceramics - and now woven materials, interlaced ba sketry or textiles, again of a kind one expects only from a quite late r era.