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Holdings: 35mm slide: 20412
Date of Photo: 1983
World Region: Europe
Region: Western Europe
Country: Germany
Archaeological Site Name: Stadel im Hohlenstein
Period: c. 32,000 BC
Description: Stadel im Hohlenstein. One of earliest known ivory carvings in Europe. "ivory animal/anthropomorphic figure, c. 28 cm high, Period: Aurignacian (level IV in the cave), Age: c. 32,000 B.P., based on AMS dates on bones from the site. One of earliest known ivory carvings (full relief) in Europe. Identified as fragmentary carved object by excavator, Gustav Riek, in 1931. Complete object later reconstructed by several archaeologists from ivory fragmen
Image Categories: Artifact Function: Religion or Ritual
Source Type Detail: Book Citation: "Urgeschichte in Baden-Wurttemberg," by Hansjurgen Muller-Beck, et. al.; Abb. 186. Stuttgart: KonradTheiss Verlag, 1983.

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Full citation: "Stadel im Hohlenstein. One of earliest known ivory carvings in Europe. "ivory animal/anthropomorphic figure, c. 28 cm high, Period: Aurignacian (level IV in the cave), Age: c. 32,000 B.P., based on AMS dates on bones from the site. One of earliest known ivory carvings (full relief) in Europe. Identified as fragmentary carved object by excavator, Gustav Riek, in 1931. Complete object later reconstructed by several archaeologists from ivory fragmen". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-16706/16706. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. April 22, 2024.