Johannes Gustav Riek (May 23, 1900 in Stuttgart − November 1, 1976 in Feldstetten) was a German archaeologist from the University of Tübingen who worked with the SS Ahnenerbe in their excavations, and led the teams that excavated the Vogelherd Cave in 1931, the Heuneburg Tumulus burial mounds in 1937 and the Brillenhöhle 1955–63.[1][2][3][4][5]

At Vogelherd, Riek discovered ivory figurines of the Aurignacian archeological tradition.[6]

Works edit

  • Die Eiszeitjägerstation am Vogelherd im Lonetal (1934)
  • Kulturbilder aus der Altsteinzeit Württembergs (1935)
  • Die Mammutjäger vom Lonetal (1951)


References edit

  1. ^ Sanz, Nuria (UNESCO) (7 September 2015). Human origin sites and the World Heritage Convention in Eurasia. UNESCO Publishing. pp. 85–. ISBN 978-92-3-100109-3.
  2. ^ Hansjürgen Müller-Beck (2001). Die Steinzeit: der Weg der Menschen in die Geschichte. C.H.Beck. pp. 7–. ISBN 978-3-406-47719-5.
  3. ^ Fundberichte aus Schwaben. 1967.
  4. ^ Michael A. Jochim (31 May 1998). A Hunter-Gatherer Landscape: Southwest Germany in the Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 978-0-306-45741-8.
  5. ^ Svante Pääbo (11 February 2014). Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-08068-7.
  6. ^ Floss, Harald (2015-12-12). "The Oldest Portable Art: the Aurignacian Ivory Figurines from the Swabian Jura (Southwest Germany)". Palethnologie. Archéologie et sciences humaines (7). doi:10.4000/palethnologie.888. ISSN 2108-6532.