The Adorant from the Geißenklösterle cave is a 35,000–32,0000 year-old[1][2] carved section of mammoth ivory, with a depiction of a human figure.
It was discovered in the Geißenklösterle cave in the Swabian Jura near Blaubeuren, Germany.The object (or 'plate') is an exceptional artwork, demonstrating a highly developed aesthetic ability within early Upper Palaeolithic, Aurignacian culture.
[1] The artefact has been interpreted as containing humanity's oldest known figurative astronomical representation - of the constellation Orion - together with a notched notation system of time-reckoning based on the lunar phases.
The posture is usually interpreted as an expression of worship, which is why in German the figure is called an 'adorant', a word meaning 'worshipper'.
The nine-month period when Orion was visible in the sky approximately matched the duration of human pregnancy - thereby possibly relating the asterism to fertility.