The paper describes four decorated and/or utilized pebbles, coming from Grotta della Ferrovia (central Italy), that go back to the final Epigravettian (11,700+-200 BP) . These pieces are the archaelogical subject selected to illustrate the connection between the artistic activities and the daily life in the Upper Palaeolithic.The stylistic analyses (D.Zampetti), the use-wear analyses (C.Lemorini) and the technological and experimental observations (M.Massussi) show that these pieces were used and conceived both as multifunctional tools both as symbolic media
