Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7439818 | L'Anthropologie | 2018 | 22 Pages |
Abstract
The fragments of the figurine called “lion-man” were found in 1939Â in the cave of Hohlenstein-Stadel, in southwestern Germany. Joachim Hahn was the first to assemble the figure in 1969; the statuette was then restored between 1987Â and 1988Â in the workshops of the regional museum of Württemberg in Stuttgart. New excavations, conducted by the State Office for Cultural Heritage of Baden-Württemberg (Esslingen, Germany), were held in the same cave between 2009Â and 2013. Then, hundreds of small fragments were found; some of them clearly belonged to the lion-man. Following these excavations, a second restoration was undertaken in the workshops of the State office of Cultural Heritage in 2012Â and 2013. The Lion-Man, the tallest of the figures from the last Ice Age, got a new appearance. After the refitting of the fragments, a large part of the figurine has been completed.
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Authors
Nicole Ebinger-Rist, Sibylle Wolf, Kurt Wehrberger, Claus-Joachim Kind,