3D scans of parts of a set of fittings from Hauskirchen grave 13, the grave of a 25- to 30-year-old woman. The objects belonged to an abundant assemblage of functional and/or ornamental fittings of two horse harnesses and bridles. ...

3D scan of a bone comb from Hauskirchen grave 13. The site is located in the northeastern Weinviertel in Austria. Despite its robbery in the past, this grave of an adult woman is one of the richest graves of the Migration Era in ...

3D scans of mountings with Lunula Pendants made of gilded silver from Hauskirchen grave 13. The objects belonged to an abundant assemblage of functional and/or ornamental fittings of two horse harnesses and bridles. Originally, ...

3D scans of hemispherical strap distributors made of gilded bronze from Hauskirchen grave 13. They were part of a set of fittings, which together with leather straps formed harnesses and bridles for two horses. They belong to a ...

3D scans of rectangular fittings from Hauskirchen grave 13. The fittings, measuring approximately 3.8 x 2.6 cm, are made of fire-gilt bronze with triangular decorations on the edge. Notched lines decorate the rectangular strap ...

3D scan of components of a horse bridle found at the burial site in Hauskirchen, Austria, in grave 13. Together with further finds, the objects form an assemblage of functional and/or ornamental fittings of two horse harnesses and ...

3D scans of small hemispherical fittings on leather bands from Hauskirchen. They are made of silver and are part of the grave goods belonging to grave 13, the burial of a 25- to 30-year-old woman, which is one of the richest ...

3D scan of an oval-shaped simple buckle from Hauskirchen grave 13. It is made from iron and measures 3.5 cm x 2.4 cm.

3D scan of a spindle whorl from Hauskirchen grave 10. It is made of clay, frustoconical and beveled at the bottom, with indented underside. The spindle whorl measures 3.2 cm x 1.9 cm.

3D scan of an iron weaving sword from Hauskirchen grave 13. It has a thorn-shaped tip and a simple hilt with a somewhat widened end. The iron ring located next to the sparse charred remains of the wooden handle has completely ...

3D scan of an Eastern moa (Emeus crassus) skeleton from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene. Moas are extinct birds that lived on New Zealand. This skeleton was donated to the museum by Dr. Julius Ritter von Haast.

3D scan of a Southern stout-legged moa (Euryapteryx curtus gravis) skeleton from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene. Moas are extinct birds that lived on New Zealand. This skeleton was donated to the museum by Dr. Julius Ritter von ...

3D scan of an Eastern moa (Emeus crassus) skeleton from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene. Moas are extinct birds that lived on New Zealand. This skeleton was donated to the museum by Dr. Julius Ritter von Haast in 1884.

3D scan of a South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus) skeleton from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene. Moas are extinct birds that lived on New Zealand. This skeleton was donated to the museum by Dr. Julius Ritter von Haast in 1884.

3D scan of a weaving sword from Hauskirchen grave 8. It is one of the burial goods of a 10-11 year old girl. Iron weaving swords generally occur only in ─ usually richly equipped ─ graves of female individuals and were ...

3D scan of a 62 mm long core. In lithic production, cores are the starting points, from which all subsequent blanks (e.g. blades or flakes) are knapped off. This core seems to have been used mainly for the production of regular ...

3D scan of a 45 mm long core. In lithic production, cores are the starting points from which all subsequent blanks (e.g. blades or flakes) are knapped off. This core seems to have been used mainly for the production of regular ...

3D scan of a 93 mm long blade, distally modified as a drill. Due to its shape, the object can be classified as a double drill. The artefact is made from red-brown to yellow white veined chert. It surfaced in layer 9 of the ...

3D scan of a 78,7 mm long fragment of the distal (upper) part of a bone point. It originated from layer 4 of the Willendorf II site in the Wachau Region in Lower Austria. It constitutes one of the numerous osseous artefacts ...

3D scan of a 53 mm long double endscraper on a blade made from gray chert. Scrapers show one or two retouched concave working edges at an acute angle. They were used to skin animals, clean meat off hides or on wood. This scraper ...

3D scan of a reconstruction of a dodo (Raphus cucullatus), the now extinct flightless bird which was endemic to the island of Mauritius. The first eyewitnesses of the dodo were a Dutch fleet led by Van Warwjick in 1598 - within ...

3D scan of a 85 mm long blade. The artefact features no modifications and is made of gray-brown chert, with most of its surface covered by blue-white patina. The object originated from layer 9 of the Willendorf II site in the ...

3D scan of a 135 mm long blade made from brown grey speckled chert. It constitutes one of the numerous artefacts found in the same site as the Venus of Willendorf.

3D scan of a reindeer antler with cut marks. Reindeer antlers were used as raw material for a variety of items during the Paleolithic, including pins to fasten clothing, points for spears as well as awls. The item originated from ...

3D scan of a 70 mm long endscraper on a blade made from brown-red radiolarite. Scrapers show one or two retouched concave working edges at an acute angle. They were used to skin animals, clean meat off hides or on wood. This ...

3D scan of a plunging blade made from red-brown radiolarite. The item originated from layer 9 of the Willendorf II site in the Wachau Region in Lower Austria. It constitutes one of the numerous artefacts found in the same site as ...

3D scan of a 49 mm long core. In lithic production, cores are the starting points, from which all subsequent blanks (e.g. blades or flakes) are knapped off. Sometimes cores were also used secondary as scrapers, as seems to have ...

3D scan of a 70 mm long endscraper on a blade made from gray quartz. Scrapers show one or two retouched concave working edges at an acute angle. They were used to skin animals, clean meat off hides or on wood. This endscraper ...

3D scan of a 74 mm long bilaterally retouched point made from veined chert. The item originated from layer 9 of the Willendorf II site in the Wachau Region in Lower Austria. It constitutes one of the numerous artefacts found in ...

3D scan of a 53 mm long double burin. Tools of this kind are especially common and appear in great variety in Central Europe during the Upper Paleolithic. They were used to work hard materials, such as dry wood or bone, antler, ...

3D scan of a 69 mm long burin made from white patinated chert. Tools of this kind are especially common and appear in great variety in Central Europe during the Upper Paleolithic. They were used to work hard materials, such as ...

3D scan of a 55 mm long burin made from brown-red radiolarite. Tools of this kind are especially common and appear in great variety in Central Europe during the Upper Paleolithic. They were used to work hard materials, such as ...

3D scan of an expedition box from the excavations undertaken at the site Willendorf II in 1908 and 1909. Within these boxes lithic artefacts were stored, which were deemed as ‘waste’ by the original excavators in 1908/09, and ...

3D scan of the lid of an expedition box from the excavations undertaken at the site Willendorf II in 1908 and 1909. The lid originally belonged to an expedition box from the excavations in Willendorf II 1908/09. Within the box, ...

3D scan of a plaster cast of a dodo skull (Raphus cucullatus). The original skull is now in the Natural History Museum of Denmark (former Copenhagen Zoological Museum) and originates the collection of the museum in Gottorf Castle ...

3D scan of a plaster cast of a dodo foot, which was brought from London to Vienna by Johann Natterer. Due to their life on an island ecosystem, dodos were not exposed to larger predators and evolved a complete absence of fear of ...

Expedition box from the excavations undertaken at the site Willendorf II in 1908 and 1909. Within these boxes lithic artefacts were stored, which were deemed as ‘waste’ by the original excavators in 1908/09, and therefore in ...

3D scan of a modified piece of mammoth tusk, which has been interpreted as anthropomorphic figurine, dubbed as Venus III. The object was found in 1908 in layer 9 of the site Willendorf II, the same site as the Venus of Willendorf ...

3D scan of an anthropomorphic figurine made of mammoth ivory, which is known since its discovery in 1926 as Venus II. The object was found at the same site as the Venus of Willendorf (NHMW-Prae 44.686).

3D scan of a 134 mm long core made from gray-green marl. In lithic production, cores are the starting points, from which all subsequent blanks (e.g. blades or flakes) are knapped off. It originated from layer 9 of the Willendorf ...

3D scan of a 72 mm long double function tool made from blue-white patinated chert. This object features a scraper and a burin edge. The item originated from layer 9 of the Willendorf II site in the Wachau Region in Lower Austria. ...

3D scan of a 70 mm long scraper on a blade made from gray quartz. Scrapers show one or two retouched concave working edges at an acute angle. They were used to skin animals, clean meat off hides or on wood. This scraper ...

3D scan of a 56 mm long notched backed point. Notched backed points were especially common during the Gravettian and were probably used as armoring for spears. The item is from the younger layer of the Willendorf I/North site in ...

3D scan of a rib with criss-cross decoration. The item originated from layer 9 of the Willendorf II site in the Wachau Region in Lower Austria.It constitutes one of the numerous artefacts found in the same site as the Venus of Willendorf.

3D scan of a perforated fox tooth. Teeth of carnivores such as fox, wolf, or even cave lions were frequently used as ornaments during the Upper Paleolithic. Further cut marks on fox bone in sites on the Swabian Alp and in Moravia ...

3D scan of a piece of red ochre. Red ochre was one of the available and used natural colors of the Stone Age. It was used in cave paintings, to color clothing and skins, as well as for burial rituals from the Middle Paleolithic ...