!!!Gudenushöhle

Gudenus Cave, below the Hartenstein Castle northeast of Krems (Lower 
Austria). The lower cultural layer dates back to the Ice Age about 
70,000 ago, when Neandertal Man hunted mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, 
reindeer, wild horses, cave bears and cave hyaenas in the area. The 
upper cultural layer is thought to belong to the Magdalenian, between 
20,000 and 10,000 B.C. The most important finds are a 4-cm-long bone 
whistle (oldest musical instrument in Austria) and the engraved 
drawing of a reindeer head on eagle's bone.

!Literature
C. Neugebauer-Maresch, Altsteinzeit im Osten Oesterreichs, 
1993.


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