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Nicholas Conard

[To Wikipedia: I am not totally clear on copyright infringement (I looked at your definition) but I believe an article on Nicholas J. Conard belongs in Wikipedia and would be of interest to its users. Please advise, or correct if possible yourself if there is copyright infringement. The next three paragraphs summarize information about Nicholas J. Conard that I found in an article in the September / October 2007 issue of “Archaeology”, a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America. I have quoted my sources.]

Nicholas J. Conard is an American archaeologist who has been chair of the archaeology department at the University of Tübingen in Southern Germany since 1995.

Background Swabia is nestled between France, Switzerland and Bavaria. The Swabian Jura is a limestone plateau about the size of Rhode Island and forms part of the foothills of the Alps. Researchers have been working in Swabia’s Lone and Ach valleys since the early 1880s. In 1969, Tübingen archaeologist Joachim Hahn began rummaging through unconventional finds from Swabia’s Lone and Ach valleys and spent the next 25 years working in the Swabian caves, until his death in 1997. After Hahn died, Nicholas Conard took over work at the Swabian Jura.

Nicholas Conard is a controversial scholar who claims modern culture was born in the foothills of the Alps. Quoted from the abstract link below: ‘Conard claims his finds are evidence of an intense flowering of art and culture that began in southwestern Germany more than 35,000 years ago...."Figurative art began in Swabia, music began in Swabia," he says...’

― Gleaned from an article entitled “The Dawn of Art” by Andrew Curry in the September / October 2007 issue of “Archaeology”, a publication of the Archaeological Institute of America. An abstract can be found at: http://www.archaeology.org/

Or more specifically at: http://www.archaeology.org/0709/abstracts/iceage.html

I certainly would be interested in learning a bit more about the archaeologist Nicholas J. Conard (such as date of birth, education), if someone(s) could kindly fill in the details. In Googling “Nicholas Conard”, the most prominent results were:

Prof. Conard: http://www.urgeschichte.uni-tuebingen.de/index.php?id=25

Publications in Prehistory: http://www.urgeschichte.uni-tuebingen.de/index.php?id=74

And an earlier article on the same subject as the 2007 article found in “Archaeology”: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/12/1217_031217_modernhumans.html

There are other links, such as www.nespos.org for only professionals and students in archaeology.