Ancient Secrets Unearthed: Mysterious 40,000-Year-Old Bird Carvings Revealed in German Cave
J. Lipták/University of TübingenArchaeologists found this waterfowl figurine in Hohle Fels Cave more than 20 years ago.
The team also found a waterfowl figurine around 25 years ago, which, after this recent find, brings the tally to three bird depictions discovered at Hohle Fels in all. At the other three sites in the UNESCO World Heritage region that have boasted Ice Age artworks, however, not a single bird has been found.
“We are therefore increasingly recognizing that people produced individual works, for which they resorted to different motifs depending on the ivory workshop — each site thus bears its own unique signature,” Conard told Nature. “The figurines demonstrate that the carvers of the world’s oldest art were able to depict birds in diverse and extremely intricate ways.”
Still, the specific motivations behind carving the figurines is anyone’s guess.
Conard hypothesized that the artistic capabilities of humans living in Hohle Fels and nearby caves represent a shift in cognitive and cultural sophistication that possibly led these people to flourish during the Ice Age in Europe, while other groups of Homo sapiens disappeared.
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