Figure 1

(a) Borsuka Cave location; (b) Excavation site; (c) Cross section of the Borsuka Cave deposits showing position of the artefacts, grey circles indicate pendants deposited in the bedrock cavity (after Wilczyński et al7.). I-IV Holocene layers, V-VII Late Pleistocene/Upper Palaeolithic layers; (d) European elk pendants, dashed lines mark cutting section, arrows indicate halves selected for analysis.