... Nice view of 35,000-year-old art made from mammoth ivory... the first complete ivory figure from the Swabian Jura found in the Vogelherd Cave... the figure of the woolly mammoth is tiny, measuring just 3.7 cm long and weighing a mere 7.5 grams, and displays skilfully detailed carvings... they are "the oldest and most impressive examples of figurative art from the Ice Age."... among the figures are also a well-preserved part of a lion, a fragment of a second mammoth, and the remains of two as yet unidentified depictions... with great matching EUROPA stamp sheet and special postmark showing "National Archaeological Discoveries"👍... Thanks a lot Dustin!(✿◠‿◠)
The Vogelherd cave is located in the Lone Valley in southwest Germany and an important Upper Paleolithic site in the Vogelherd Archaeological Park.
Four caves in the region (Vogelherd, Hohlenstein-Stadel, Geißenklösterle, and Hohle Fels) have yielded works of art that are all more than 30,000 years old. Radiocarbon dating has shown that the finds belong to the so-called Aurignacian period, which is often associated with the arrival of anatomically modern humans in Europe.
The cave was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list as one of six caves that make up the World Heritage Site of Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Alb.
Stamps:
World of Letters
(02-11-2022)
World of Letters
(02-11-2024)
EUROPA Stamp
(08-05-2025)
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