Tag Archive for 'Jura Mountains'

Two bird figurines found at Hohle Fels Cave in Germany. Image credit: Ralf Ehmann / University of Tübingen / Museum of Prehistory and Ice Age Art.

40,000-Year-Old Bird Figurines Found in German Cave

Jul 29, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists in southwestern Germany have unearthed two miniature bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory, among the smallest and most delicate examples...

Plaquette with hybrid creature (so-called ‘Adorant’), ivory, from the Swabian Aurignacian. Image credit: Christian Bentz & Ewa Dutkiewicz, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2520385123.

Early Humans May Have Invented System of Symbols Long Before Writing

Feb 25, 2026 by Sergio Prostak

Early humans living in Europe some 40,000 years ago developed a conventional system of geometric signs — deliberate, repeatable markings that went...

Middle Paleolithic stone core from the site of Heidenschmiede, Germany. Image credit: Jens A. Frick.

Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals Used Sophisticated Tool-Making Techniques, Researchers Say

Sep 8, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists have examined a large assemblage of 45,000-year-old stone tools and by-products of tool-making process from the site of Heidenschmiede in...

The 65,000-year-old leaf point from Hohle Fels Cave, Germany. Image credit: University of Tübingen.

Neanderthals Hunted with Leaf-Shaped Spears, Archaeologists Say

Jul 28, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists say they have found a 65,000-year-old leaf point in a cave in the Swabian Jura, Germany. The 65,000-year-old leaf point from Hohle Fels...

The 110-step trackway represents a new ichnospecies, Brontopodus plagnensis, and extends over 508 feet -- a world record for sauropods, which were the largest of the dinosaurs. Image credit: P. Dumas.

World’s Longest Sauropod Trackway Found in France

Nov 16, 2017 by Enrico de Lazaro

The trackway of a plant-eating sauropod dinosaur has been excavated in the Jura Mountains, France. This 508-foot (155 m) line of footsteps is the longest...