Resumen de A 14 000-year-old amber elk and the origins of northern European art

Stephan Veil, Klaus Breest, Pieter Grootes, Marie-Josée Nadeau, Matthias Hüls

• A Late Palaeolithic amber figurine has been skilfully recovered and reassembled from a ploughed open site in northern Germany. Dated between 11 800 and 11 680 cal BC it occupies a key point between the Magdalenian and the Mesolithic. The authors show that the figurine represents a female elk which was probably carried on the top of a wooden staff. They argue for continuity of art but change of belief in this crucial transition period.