Lion Man and the Cro-magnon culture

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Cro-magnon era the Lion Man figurine is a recently re-dated Ice Age artefact. Once thought to be 32,000 years old, the lion-headed statue is now believed to have been carved 40,000 years ago in the Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in Germany’s Swabian Alps.

The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries during last Ice-age – between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago – created the great cave paintings found in places such as Chauvet, Lascaux and Altamira. But those were not the only artworks of those times. Many small, portable sculptures, drawings, models and ornaments were made outside in the daylight of the cave entrances, or in camp-sites during the seasonal treks. These objects were largely made from animal materials – bone, antler, ivory – and a great many of them depicted the animals from which they were sourced.

During this time they have mixed occasionally with the populations of Near East and Far North.



We also detect distinct genetic interactions between the populations of central Anatolia and earlier farming centers to the east, during the late Pleistocene/early Holocene and describe a genetic link with European hunter-gatherers that predates 15,000 years ago. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09209-7


The foot-high Lion Man sculpture from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, carved from a mammoth tusk, is the product of a human mind imaginative enough to conceive a figure with a lion’s head and human body. It probably symbolizes the supreme nature of man over the other animals in this primitive world in human consciousness of the Cro-magnon people.
Haplogroups identified Y-DNA haplogroups IJ, C1, and K2a and matrilineal mt-DNA haplogroup N, R, and U. Y-haplogroup IJ descended from Southwest Asia. Haplogroup I emerged about 35 to 30 thousand years ago, either in Europe or West Asia. Mt-haplogroup U5 arose in Europe just prior to the LGM, between 35 and 25 thousand years ago. The 14,000 year old Villabruna 1 skeleton from Ripari Villabruna, Italy, is the oldest identified bearer of Y-haplogroup R1b (R1b1a-L754* (xL389,V88)) found in Europe, likely brought in from Near Eastern introgression of EHG. These early R1 migrations between Asia and Europe probably spread these Cro-magnon artifacts like Lion-man, Venus etc.. wide and far into Asia and Africa and later kickstarted the urban and group living, religion and Neolithic revolution.

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Hindus also have this consciousness of the Lion-man winning some of the ancient towns in the form of Lord Narasimha - the lion man



It probably symbolizes the movement of these people during the Younger Dryas from North and settling down among Indians