Parures préhistoriques de Roumanie : pendeloques paléolithiques et épipaléolithiques (25.000-10.000 BP)

The paper propose an extensive approach (repertory, typology, technology, radiocarbon dates etc.) of 8 oldest pieces of adornment (pendants) dated to the Eastern Gravettian and Epigravettian from this part of Europe. The six objects attributed to the Eastern Gravettian are made in stone (3) and bone (3). The exhaustive systematic analysis of traces has allowed for the first time the restitution of "chaine opératoire" of manufacture of the bone pendant from Mitoc and the engraving sophisticated decoration of the bone pendant from Tibrinu. This last object is a unicum for this part of Europe. The two Epigravettian pendants (one simple in bone and other decorated in red-deer antler) were recuperated from the shelter Dubova - Cuina Turcului. The study contributes essentially to the definition in actual terms of typology and technology of oldest adornment from Romania as material expression of first spiritual manifestations of hunter-gatherer communities and allowed to integrate the data of the phenomenon in the European context.