🌙⭐ This 38 × 14 × 4.5 mm mammoth-ivory plaque, known as the Adorant, was found in Geißenklösterle Cave in Germany's Swabian Jura and dates to 35,000–32,000 years ago. It has 39 edge notches grouped 6, 13, 7 and 13, plus 49 reverse-side notches in four columns of 13, 10, 13 and 13. The video argues that the 88 marks correspond to roughly three lunar cycles, or 88.5 days, and that the carved figure may depict Orion. Its identification as Europe's oldest astronomical calendar is the video's claim.
Adorant plaque: The video argues 88 notches may track lunar time
Site mentioned
📍 Adorant from the Geißenklösterle cave🌍 Show on the globe
Key facts
- The Adorant is a 38 × 14 × 4.5 mm mammoth-ivory plaque found in Geißenklösterle Cave in Germany's Swabian Jura, dated to 35,000–32,000 years ago.
- Its edges have 39 notches grouped as 6, 13, 7 and 13; its reverse has 49 notches in four columns of 13, 10, 13 and 13.
- The video argues that the 88 notches correspond to approximately three lunar cycles, or 88.5 days.
- The video also proposes that the carved figure may represent Orion and that the plaque could be Europe's oldest astronomical calendar; these are interpretations, not established facts.
Sources
Adorant from the Geißenklösterle cave - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
The Adorant from the Geißenklösterle cave is a 35,000–32,000 year-old carved section of mammoth ivory, with a depiction of a human figure.
The Decorated Plate of the Geißenklösterle, Germanyweb.astronomicalheritage.net
The edges contain a total of 39 notches in groups of 6, 13, 7 and 13. A further 49 notches on side B are arranged in four vertical lines of 13, 10, 12 and 13 ...
[PDF] Case Study 1.2: The Decorated Plate of the Geißenklösterle, Germanyweb.astronomicalheritage.org
The edges contain a total of 39 notches in groups of 6, 13, 7 and 13. A further 49 notches on side B are arranged in four vertical lines of 13, 10, 12 and ...
These mysterious Stone Age symbols from 40000 years ago could ...ca.news.yahoo.com
Strange symbols carved onto a Stone Age mammoth ivory plate found at a cave in southwest Germany could be the earliest known predecessor to ...
40000-year-old European engravings reveal structured sign ...archaeologymag.com
The Adorant figurine from Geißenklösterle Cave, dating to approximately 38,000 years ago, is a small ivory plaque bearing an anthropomorphic figure on one side ...
The Adorant: The Ice Age Sculpture That Is the Oldest ...labrujulaverde.com
In the Geißenklösterle cave, al piece of prehistoric art was discovered in 1979: a carved mammoth ivory plaque, dated between 35,000 and 32,000 ...
(PDF) Experimental Reconstructions of the Mammoth Ivory ...researchgate.net
Experimental Reconstructions of the Mammoth Ivory Flute from Geißenklösterle Cave (GK3) and Other Palaeolithic Wind Instruments from South-West Germany.
The Sites of Geissenklosterle, Hohle Fels, and Middle ...donsmaps.com
Flute in three pieces from Geißenklösterle, made of mammoth ivory, 38 000 BP. Photo: Don Hitchcock 2015. Source and text: Blaubeuren Museum.
Was this story useful?
Keep exploring
Every site on this page sits on the globe, and the people who research them are on the Discord.
3D Globe · Sites by country · Story Archive · Research Library · Weekly Journal · Search
AI-generated text · images from the original sources · always verify with the sources.