As with most of the animal sculptures found at Vogelherd, the legs of this mammoth have been shortened. The body is covered with engraved crosses, the meaning of which is unknown.

The surface of the sculpture, carved from mammoth ivory, is uniformly polished which indicates it was regularly handled.

Museum der Universität Tübingen.

The most ancient culture of the Upper Palaeolithic, between 35,000 and 28,000 years ago. The culture of the first modern humans in Europe was named after the Aurignac site in Haute-Garonne, France, where it was first identified by Édouard Lartet in 1860.

Source: Dr Jean Clottes

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