Personal ornaments — shell beads, perforated animal teeth, ivory rings — appear in Upper Paleolithic sites across Europe during this period, including sites broadly contemporary with Zlatý kůň.

These ornaments imply a level of symbolic thinking and social communication — identity signaling, group affiliation, personal adornment — that is recognizably modern.

And then there is the art.

The cave paintings of southwestern France and northern Spain, some dating to this period, represent the most spectacular surviving examples of early modern human artistic production.

But portable art — carved and engraved objects, figurines, decorated tools — is found across a much wider geographic range during the Upper Paleolithic, including in central Europe.

The people who lived in the Bohemian karst 45,000 years ago were capable of the same cognitive operations that produced Lascaux and Altamira.