The Nowa Biała 2 archaeological site (Obłazowa Cave) is located in the large valley of Podhale, in the southwest section of Obłazowa Rock at an altitude of approximately 7 m above the Białka River.

The Obłazowa Cave was inhabited by humans several times. This is indicated by the settlement levels seen in several deposit strata. Some Mousterian, Taubachian, Micoquian and Charentian artefacts were found in the river series and at the lower clay series. Artefacts dating from the Upper Palaeolithic were discovered in the upper part of the transitional series (XI layer) and within the clayey and rubble-like sequence (VIII layer and those above). Another problem concerns the artefacts found beyond the intact system of the above-presented series, i.e. in the pit (XXII “layer”). Except for the concentration in the layer VIII, which present the religious-sanctuary aspect of Obłazowa Cave, the discovered Palaeolithic assemblages from cultural layers in Obłazowa represent typical inventories of cave hunting sites.

All found elements in the level VIII (palimpsest of Aurignacian and Pavlovian) of Obłazowa show the exceptional character of the inventory. The human bones can indicate for burial practices in the form perhaps of the symbolic grave only. But this interpretation has no good analogies and is maybe less acceptable. Instead, we can assume that a ceremonial place was situated here. The question of which character ceremony took place here, cannot be answered directly. On the one hand, there should be stressed again, that we have here a lot of relatively rare artefacts of special value, well preserved and undisturbed, in some cases covered with red pigment, like ochre, on the other, that no typical cultural rubbish (i.e. animals bone fragments, larger debitage collection) were found here. Two parts of human fingers and the absence of other parts of the human skeleton has no analogies under Palaeolithic assemblages. It should be remembered that the cave sediments of Obłazowa were completely sieved on the sieves with a fine network (less as 1 mm).

In this situation, we can postulate either some practices like shamanism, and suppose that the Palaeolithic man cut fingers, perhaps as ritual (for instance initiation) purpose or, what is less probable, that some accident happened or the cutting has other various purposes, e.g. medical “operation”. This supposition can be supported when we remember here the possibility of an explanation of some hand’s picture from many Franko-Cantabrian provinces of Palaeolithic art, as a document of cutting or reduced, in another way, fingers first observed and described in Gargas Cave in 1910.