Johannes Gustav Riek (May 23, 1900 in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

− November 1, 1976 in Feldstetten) was a German archaeologist from the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-Wü ...

who worked with the SS

Ahnenerbe The Ahnenerbe (, ''ancestral heritage'') operated as a think tank in Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1945. Heinrich Himmler, the ''Reichsführer-SS'' from 1929 onwards, established it in July 1935 as an SS appendage devoted to the task of promot ...

in their excavations, and led the teams that excavated the

Vogelherd Cave The Vogelherd Cave (german: Vogelherdhöhle , or simply ''Vogelherd'') is located in the eastern Swabian Jura, south-western Germany. This limestone karst cave came to scientific and public attention after the 1931 discovery of the Upper Palae ...

in 1931, the

Heuneburg The Heuneburg is a prehistoric hillfort by the river Danube in Hundersingen near Herbertingen, between Ulm and Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, in the south of Germany, close to the modern borders with Switzerland and Austria. It is considered to ...

Tumulus burial mounds in 1937 and the Brillenhöhle 1955–63. At Vogelherd, Riek discovered ivory figurines of the

Aurignacian The Aurignacian () is an archaeological industry of the Upper Paleolithic associated with European early modern humans (EEMH) lasting from 43,000 to 26,000 years ago. The Upper Paleolithic developed in Europe some time after the Levant, where t ...

archeological tradition.

Works

* ''Die Eiszeitjägerstation am Vogelherd im Lonetal'' (1934) * ''Kulturbilder aus der Altsteinzeit Württembergs'' (1935) * ''Die Mammutjäger vom Lonetal'' (1951) 1900 births 1976 deaths Archaeologists from Baden-Württemberg Ahnenerbe members Hinzert concentration camp personnel

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