jan 1, 33000 BC - 33,000 BCE - Swabian Jura Ivory Carvings the second oldest example of European prehistoric sculpture after the famous Venus of Hohle Fels The Swabian Jura, a plateau in the German state of Baden-Württemberg

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In 2006, archeologists from the Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology at the German University of Tubingen unearthed the first completely intact mammoth ivory carving from the Upper Paleolithic era of the old Stone Age. Dated to 33,000 BCE, it is the oldest carving of an animal known to archeology, the second oldest example of European prehistoric sculpture after the famous Venus of Hohle Fels (c.38,000-33,000 BCE) - also discovered by archeologists from Tubingen - and one of the most outstanding examples of mobiliary art of the late Stone Age.

Other discoveries of prehistoric art included four other mammoth ivory animal sculptures, including a lion figurine, fragments of a second mammoth figurine and two unidentified carvings. All the artifacts were found at the site of the Vogelherd Cave in the Swabian Jura, in southern Germany. The Vogelherd mammoth ranks among the earliest art of prehistory.

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