The symbolic behaviour of the first modern humans the Fumane cave evidence (venetian Prealps)

Despite the modest number of finds, the production of Aurignacian figurative art shows notable variety. All the sculptures from the caves of the Swabian Jura (Conard and Bolus, 2003; Hahn, 1970, 1982) all the engravings of the Dordogna shelters (Leroi-Gourhan, 1965), the paintings at the entrance of the Fumane Cave and the paintings of the Chauvet Cave (Clottes, 1997, 1999, 2001) suggest some centers, every one of which develops themes, in part common to each other, using one’s own expressive language. This admission is not opposed with the attribution of all the Aurignacian sites, that is seen as a great systematic entity characterized by common technological bases - the blade and bladelet production in the lithic industry, the making of points taken from animal bones - to which groups used to different environments who had developed ways of life, economic systems, social structures and most probably different cultures, joined.