Hole Fels

The Hohle Fels “horse” figurine with all its fragments. Source: Ria Litzenberg / University of Tübingen

5 August, 2023 - 15:00 Nathan Falde

A Case of Mistaken Identity: Hohle Fels “Horse” Was Not a Horse at All

The first example of ancient ivory artwork ever recovered from the World Heritage cave Hohle Fels in southwestern Germany was a piece of a broken figurine that depicted a horse’s head—or so...