Prehistoric Ivory Lion Head Reunited With Body

News July 19, 2013

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(H. Jensen. Copyright University of Tübingen)

LONE VALLEY, GERMANY—New excavations in Vogelherd Cave by researchers from the University of Tübingen have unearthed an ivory head that has been fitted to a mammoth-ivory figurine discovered in 1931. The figurine is now recognizable as a lion. More than two dozen figurines and thousands of fragments of figurines have been recovered from the cave, including the famous "lion man."

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