Added July 31, 2000. Updated May 21, 2001, 19:50.
A 30 000 Year Old Ivory Horse Sculpture from South Germany
By
Maximilian O. Baldia
What is among the oldest Stone Age Art was reported July 28, 2000 in an invitation to this year’s press conference by the excavators in South Germany. The press release was sent out by the German Internet information service Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw) in cooperation with the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen.
The report states that Prof. Nicholas Conard and coworkers found a 30 000 year old ivory horse sculpture in the “Hohle Fels” cave. In addition to the sculpture two years of excavations have yielded nearly 10 000 artifacts, consisting mainly of animal bones and stone artifacts, but also include organic material, such as staffs of reindeer antler, adornments, etc.
The cave is located in near Schelklingen, southwest of Ulm. Sculptures from the same period are known from the Vogelherd, Hohlenstein-Stadel und Geißenklösterle caves.
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References and Credits
Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw) http://idw.tu-clausthal.de/
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