Geißenklösterle
Sign in to saveGeissenklösterle () is an archaeological site of significance for the central European Upper Paleolithic, located near the town of Blaubeuren in the Swabian Jura in Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany. First explored in 1963, the cave contains traces of early prehistoric art from between 43,000 and 30,000 years ago, including some of the oldest-known musical instruments and several animal figurines. Because of the historical and cultural importance of these findings, in 2017 the site became part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura.
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- Ancient site.name
- Geissenklösterle
- Ancient site.native_name
- Geißenklösterle
- Ancient site.image
- Geißenklösterle.jpg
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- Geissenklösterle Cave interior
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- Geissenklösterle Cave interior
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- 240
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- Germany#Germany Baden-Württemberg
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- Geissenklösterle Cave in Germany
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- Location in Germany
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.location
- Blaubeuren
- Ancient site.region
- Ach Valley, Swabian Jura, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
- Ancient site.type
- karst cave
- Ancient site.material
- limestone Karst
- Ancient site.epochs
- Upper Palaeolithic to Middle Ages
- Ancient site.cultures
- Aurignacian
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1973, 1991, 2001 to 2002
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- Eberhard Wagner, Joachim Hahn, Nicholas Conard
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- cave
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Alb-Donau-Kreis
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- Geißenklösterle.jpg
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- Geißenklösterle
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- Swabian Jura
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Geissenklösterle () is an archaeological site of significance for the central European Upper Paleolithic, located near the town of Blaubeuren in the Swabian Jura in Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany. First explored in 1963, the cave contains traces of early prehistoric art from between 43,000 and 30,000 years ago, including some of the oldest-known musical instruments and several animal figurines. Because of the historical and cultural importance of these findings, in 2017 the site became part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura.
==Overview== It is one of a number of caves where early modern humans in the Aurignacian, between 43,000 and 30,000 years ago left traces of early artwork, including the Vogelherd, Brillenhöhle, Grosse Grotte, Hohle Fels and Hohlenstein-Stadel caves. The cave contains sediments, that were divided into six levels belonging to the Aurignacian and seven levels of the Gravettian. Levels below are accredited to the Middle Paleolithic and those on top reach from the Western European Magdalenian (between 17,000 and 12,000 years ago) to the Middle Ages.
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