Modern humans first arrived in Europe 43,000 years ago during the last ice age. One of the areas where they took up residence was the Swabian Jura in southern Germany. Excavated from the 1860s, six ...

Ice Age paintings from the Swabian Jura, Southwestern Germany document the earliest painting tradition in Central Europe. ScienceDaily . Retrieved April 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com ...

Archaeologists long believed that people returned to the Swabian Jura region in what is now southern Germany about 16,500 years ago. New data from two sites in the Lone Valley now shows that ...

Archaeologist report that the 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit.

Does the cradle of modern European man lie in southwestern Germany's Swabian Jura? That's the conclusion drawn by archaeologists in light of discoveries made there of several 40,000-year-old ...

The agency has added six caves located in the Swabian Jura region of southern Germany, which are notable for containing some of the world’s oldest prehistoric carvings and objects, reports CNN.

In southwestern Germany, an American archaeologist and ... the first entirely intact woolly mammoth figurine from the Swabian Jura, a plateau in the state of Baden-Württemberg, thought to have ...

In 2008, researchers exploring two caves in the Swabian Jura mountains of Germany uncovered a handful of small, bone flutes. The finds were at least 35,000 years old, making them the oldest known ...

A team led by Prof Tom Higham at Oxford University dated animal bones in the same ground layers as the flutes at Geissenkloesterle Cave in Germany's Swabian Jura. Prof Nick Conard, the Tuebingen ...

In the Swabian Jura region in southern Germany, there are six caves in which the oldest figurative artworks made by humans were discovered. This year they could be given UNESCO World Heritage status.