Kirschbaumhöhle
The Kirschbaumhöhle is a shaft cave on the Fränkische Alb in the Bavarian district of Forchheim with archaeologically significant find layers.
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Kirschbaumhöhle
The Kirschbaumhöhle is a shaft cave on the Fränkische Alb in the Bavarian district of Forchheim with archaeologically significant find layers.
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The Kirschbaumhöhle is a shaft cave on the Fränkische Alb in the Bavarian district of Forchheim with archaeologically significant find layers.
Description
Morphology
The Kirschbaumhöhle is a shaft cave.
Other details
The Kirschbaumhöhle is of particular archaeological significance, as it contains find layers dating at least to the Final Neolithic with skeletal remains that were not displaced by human intervention.
History
Anthropological and archaeozoological investigations attempt to gain new insights into which motives and rites are connected with the prehistoric deposition of human and animal bodies in Schachthöhlen.
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Source: Wikidata – cave items (Germany) (www.wikidata.org), modified. CC0 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Wikidata (CC0 1.0) · data as of 2026 · Source: German Wikipedia – article leads (cave descriptions) (de.wikipedia.org), modified. CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Wikipedia contributors (de.wikipedia.org), CC BY-SA 4.0 · Text by Wikipedia contributors (Kirschbaumhöhle) · adapted by Espeleoworld (normalized, translated); the adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ · description · obtained 2026-11-13 · https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirschbaumh%C3%B6hle · data as of 2026