Friday, 15 May 2009

30-40,000 year old `Venus' figurine found

It was found in the Aurignacian deposits(red-brown clayey silt) of the Hohle Fels cave in the Swabian Jura area of southwestern Germany.

Made of mammoth-ivory,the figurine is missing only its left arm and shoulder.

The cave has yielded worked bone and ivory,personal ornaments,tools as well as remains of horse, reindeer, bears, mammoth and ibex.

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