Repolust Cave
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| Location: | Badlgraben, Austria | |
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Geographic location: |
47 ° 13 '44 " N , 15 ° 20' 51" E | |
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| Cadastral number: | 2837/1 | |
| Discovery: | 1910 | |
| Overall length: | 66.06 m | |
| Level difference: | + 2.98 / -4.72 m | |
| Particularities: | archaeological Find spot, closed to the public |
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The Repolust cave is located north of Peggau in Badlgraben in Styria ( Austria ), above Badl an der Mur .
The Repolust cave is a site with the oldest traces of human existence in Austria. Several traces of fire that were found are around 300,000 years old.
In 1910, the miner Anton Repolust (* 1877, † in World War I) from Badl ( Frohnleiten ) discovered the cave . Hermann Bock examined the cave ten years later and came across stone tools during test excavations. In 1948 an excavation campaign was started in which over 2000 stone tools, bone implements and ceramic remains from different periods were recovered. During follow-up examinations of cave bear bones in the 1980s by Gernot Rabeder , new dates were also made, in which some of the old finds were aged by 100,000 years. The finds cover a period of more than 210,000 years.
In the layers of the find, more than 5000 mammal bones , including cave bears , wild boars , beavers , badgers and wild cats, were recovered.
In addition, there are possibly the oldest traces of chains, which consisted of pierced incisors of wolves or pierced stone blades. The finds are now in the Universalmuseum Joanneum .
On the opposite side of the valley is the Badlhöhle , which is archaeologically less important due to the phosphate mining in the First World War.
literature
- Florian A. Fladerer, Gerald Fuchs, Jörg Fürnholzer: Investigations into the layer formation in the Repolust cave, Styria . In: Find reports Austria . Issue 37, 1998, Vienna 1999, pp. 143–172.
- Gerald Fuchs, Jörg Fürnholzer, Mebus A. Geyh: Stratigraphy and dating of the deposits in the Repolust cave (Cat.No. 2837/1) . In: Archeology of Austria . Issue 8/2, 1997, pp. 39-41.
- Gerald Fuchs, Jörg Fürnholzer, Florian A. Fladerer: Investigation of the formation of the find layers in the Repolust cave, Styria . In: Find reports Austria . Issue 37, 1998, Vienna 1999, pp. 143–172. (with extensive bibliography!)
- Jörg Fürnholzer: News about the Repolust Cave (Cat.-No. 2837/1) . In: Archeology of Austria . Issue 7/1, 1996, pp. 31-32.
- Maria Mottl: The Repolust Cave, a protoaurignacia station near Peggau in Styria . In: Negotiations of the Federal Geological Institute . 1949, pp. 10-12, PDF (432 kB) on ZOBODAT
- Maria Mottl: The Protoaurignacien of the Repolusthöhle near Peggau, Styria . In: Archaeologia Austriaca . 5, 1950, pp. 6-17.
- Maria Mottl: The Repolust cave near Peggau (Styria) and its Ice Age inhabitants . In: Archaeologia Austriaca . 8, 1951, pp. 1-78.
- Maria Mottl: New excavations in the Repolust cave near Peggau in Styria . In: Communications from the Museum of Mining, Geology and Technology at the State Museum "Joanneum Graz" . Issue 15.
- Heinrich and Ingrid Kusch: Caves of Styria . Steirische Verlagsgesellschaft 1998, ISBN 3-85489-007-9 .
Web links
- Universalmuseum Joanneum: Measuring the World - Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art
Remarks
- ^ Robert G. Bednarik: The technology and use of beads in the Pleistocene , in: Archeology of Gesture, Cork 2005.