Featured: Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2019!

Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2019!

Random Image


Green Gates 02

Help Protect this Brigantes Hillfort - Click to Sign the Petition

Help Protect this Brigantes Hillfort - Click to Sign the Petition

Who's Online

There are currently, 366 guests and 1 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

More Choices

Contribute to our running costs
Webrings
News Feeds
Megalithic Mysteries
Our Online Shop

<< Our Photo Pages >> Geissenklösterle Höhle - Cave or Rock Shelter in Germany in Baden-Wuerttemberg

Submitted by AlexHunger on Tuesday, 05 June 2012  Page Views: 5872

Natural PlacesSite Name: Geissenklösterle Höhle
Country: Germany Land: Baden-Wuerttemberg Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Ulm  Nearest Village: Blaubeuren
Latitude: 48.398410N  Longitude: 9.772530E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 2 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
 4

Internal Links:
External Links:

Geissenklösterle Höhle
Geissenklösterle Höhle submitted by Andy B : One of the flutes was fashioned from mammoth ivory (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cave in Baden-Württemberg. With signs of human habitation from as early as 43,000 BCE. Geißenklösterle was first archaeologically explored in 1963. Systematic excavations began in 1973, from 1974 to 2002 sponsored by the land of Baden-Württemberg.

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.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Site believed to be near this position.

Note: Earliest music instruments, from ~42,000BC found in Germany
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this page. To see the most up to date information please register for a free account.


Geissenklösterle Höhle
Geissenklösterle Höhle submitted by Creative Commons : Interior view of Geissenklösterle Cave Creative Commons image from Wikipedia (Vote or comment on this photo)

Geissenklösterle Höhle
Geissenklösterle Höhle submitted by Creative Commons : The Bruckfelsmassiv which contains the Geissenklösterle Cave Creative Commons image from Wikipedia (Vote or comment on this photo)

Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.

Nearby Images from Flickr
Alte Bahnübergangstechnik im Achtal
- in Blaubeuren am Blautopf -
Altrot über der Blau
Blautopf

The above images may not be of the site on this page, but were taken nearby. They are loaded from Flickr so please click on them for image credits.


Click here to see more info for this site

Nearby sites

Click here to view sites on an interactive map of the area

Key: Red: member's photo, Blue: 3rd party photo, Yellow: other image, Green: no photo - please go there and take one, Grey: site destroyed

Download sites to:
KML (Google Earth)
GPX (GPS waypoints)
CSV (Garmin/Navman)
CSV (Excel)

To unlock full downloads you need to sign up as a Contributory Member. Otherwise downloads are limited to 50 sites.


Turn off the page maps and other distractions

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available
 874m NNE 26° Brillenhöhle* Cave or Rock Shelter
 1.6km SW 223° Sirgenstein Höhle Cave or Rock Shelter
 1.9km ENE 69° Grosse Grotte Cave or Rock Shelter
 2.5km SSW 210° Hohlefels Höhle* Cave or Rock Shelter
 4.8km ENE 68° Schanzhau Wald Grabhügelgruppe Artificial Mound
 5.0km ENE 71° Schanzhau Wald Keltische Viereckschanze Ancient Village or Settlement
 7.6km WNW 301° Sontheimer Höhle Cave or Rock Shelter
 9.3km SE 136° Erbach Viereckschanze Ancient Village or Settlement
 9.4km SE 135° Erbach Grabhügelgruppe Barrow Cemetery
 11.2km E 83° Ehrenstein Ancient Village or Settlement
 16.3km NNW 328° Westerheim Keltische Viereckschanze Ancient Village or Settlement
 18.3km NW 304° Zainingen Grabhügelfeld Barrow Cemetery
 21.4km SW 225° Bärenhöhle Cave or Rock Shelter
 23.7km WSW 239° Alt-Hayingen Hillfort
 24.5km ENE 57° Fohlenhaus-Höhlen Cave or Rock Shelter
 25.5km SW 219° Langhau Wald Grabhügelgruppe Barrow Cemetery
 25.5km SSW 199° Grundsheim Grabhügelgruppe Barrow Cemetery
 25.6km SW 218° Langhau Wald Keltische Viereckschanze Ancient Village or Settlement
 26.8km WNW 301° Grabenstetten Museum Museum
 27.9km ENE 67° Museum für Vor-und Frühgeschichte des Lonetales Museum
 28.9km WNW 301° Heidengraben Keltisches Oppidum Ancient Village or Settlement
 29.9km W 268° Sternberg Grabhügelgruppe Barrow Cemetery
 30.1km NE 45° Hungerbrunnen* Holy Well or Sacred Spring
 30.4km WNW 301° Gräberfeld am Burrenhof* Barrow Cemetery
 30.7km NW 306° Rekonstruiertes keltisches Zangentor am Heidengraben* Ancient Village or Settlement
View more nearby sites and additional images

<< Is Pireddas Menhir

Is Clamoris Fonte Nuragica >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Contribute!

· NEW: I have visited
· I would like to visit
· Submit an Image
· Add a description
· Give accurate position
· Add a comment or news about this site

The Archaeology of Death and Burial, Parker Pearson

The Archaeology of Death and Burial, Parker Pearson

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"Geissenklösterle Höhle" | Login/Create an Account | 4 News and Comments
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Re: Earliest music instruments found in Germany by Martin_L on Tuesday, 05 June 2012
(User Info | Send a Message)
The large entrance is fenced/grilled, regular visits are not possible, but you can view inside the short and wide cave from outside the fence. The access to the site is easy (15-20minutes walk, signposted).
[ Reply to This ]

Re: Earliest music instruments found in Germany by Martin_L on Tuesday, 05 June 2012
(User Info | Send a Message)
There were also several ivory figurines found in this and the nearby caves. The most unusual find from Geißenklösterle is described here:
http://donsmaps.com/adorant.html
[ Reply to This ]

Earliest music instruments found in Germany by Andy B on Tuesday, 05 June 2012
(User Info | Send a Message)
Researchers have identified what they say are the oldest-known musical instruments in the world.

The flutes, made from bird bone and mammoth ivory, come from a cave in southern Germany which contains early evidence for the occupation of Europe by modern humans - Homo sapiens.

Scientists used carbon dating to show that the flutes were between 42,000 and 43,000 years old.

The findings are described in the Journal of Human Evolution.

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 University researcher who identified the previous record-holder for oldest instrument in 2009, was excavator at the site.

He said: "These results are consistent with a hypothesis we made several years ago that the Danube River was a key corridor for the movement of humans and technological innovations into central Europe between 40,000-45,000 years ago.

"Geissenkloesterle is one of several caves in the region that has produced important examples of personal ornaments, figurative art, mythical imagery and musical instruments."

Read more at the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18196349

and view the abstract here
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248412000425
[ Reply to This ]

Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>
We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.