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Hohle Fels

Swabian Jura cave that held the oldest undisputed figurative art and the oldest musical instruments known.

Dated events and their evidence

• 38,000 BCE mainstream
  Venus of Hohle Fels carved — oldest undisputed figurative art, from the basal Aurignacian source
• 35,000 BCE mainstream
  bone and ivory flutes: the oldest known musical instruments source
• 1870 CE mainstream
  first excavation of the cave source
• 2008 CE mainstream
  Conard's team recovers the Venus and the flutes source
• 2017 CE mainstream
  UNESCO: Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura source

Where

48.3792° N, 9.7556° E

Sources

• https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/abs/40000yearold-female-figurine-of-hohle-fels-previous-assumptions-and-new-perspectives/8F9E1A4E3BEAFFCE9881252445314469
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohle_Fels
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caves_and_Ice_Age_Art_in_the_Swabian_Jura

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