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Figure singa Ice age : fragmen gading kuno 40.000
tahun dengan figur hewan
Arkeolog
telah menemukan fragmen kuno patung Gading hewan 40.000 tahun. Kedua .....potongan
yang ditemukan di gua Vogelherd di barat daya Jerman, yang telah menghasilkan
sejumlah karya seni zaman es. Gading mammoth menggambarkan seekor singa ditemukan selama
penggalian pada tahun 1931.
Ice age lion figurine: Ancient fragment of ivory belonging to 40,000 year
old animal figurine unearthed
Date:
July 30,
2014
Source:
Universitaet Tübingen
Summary:
Archaeologists have found an ancient fragment of ivory
belonging to a 40,000 year old animal figurine. Both pieces were found in the
Vogelherd Cave in southwestern Germany, which has yielded a number of
remarkable works of art dating to the Ice Age. The mammoth ivory figurine
depicting a lion was discovered during excavations in 1931. The new fragment
makes up one side of the figurine’s head.
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Archaeologists from the University of Tübingen have found an
ancient fragment of ivory belonging to a 40,000 year old animal figurine. Both
pieces were found in the Vogelherd Cave in southwestern Germany, which has
yielded a number of remarkable works of art dating to the Ice Age. The mammoth
ivory figurine depicting a lion was discovered during excavations in 1931. The
new fragment makes up one side of the figurine's head, and the sculpture may be
viewed at the Tübingen University Museum from 30 July.
"The
figurine depicts a lion," says Professor Nicholas Conard of Tübingen
University's Institute of Prehistory and Medieval Archaeology, and the
Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment Tübingen. "It
is one of the most famous Ice Age works of art, and until now, we thought it
was a relief, unique among these finds dating to the dawn of figurative art.
The reconstructed figurine clearly is a three dimensional sculpture."
The new
fragment was discovered when today's archaeologists revisited the work of their
predecessors from the 1930s. "We have been carrying out renewed
excavations and analysis at Vogelherd Cave for nearly ten years," says
Conard. "The site has yielded a wealth of objects that illuminate the
development of early symbolic artifacts dating to the period when modern humans
arrived in Europe and displaced the indigenous Neanderthals." He points
out that the Vogelherd Cave has provided evidence of the world's earliest art
and music and is a key element in the push to make the caves of the Swabian
Jura a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Vogelherd is
one of four caves in the region where the world's earliest figurines have been
found, dating back to 40,000 years ago. Several dozen figurines and fragments
of figurines have been found in the Vogelherd alone, and researchers are
piecing together thousands of mammoth ivory fragments.
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