Gustav Riek

{{Short description|German archaeologist from the University of Tübingen who worked with the SS Ahnenerbe}}

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Johannes Gustav Riek (May 23, 1900 in Stuttgart − November 1, 1976 in Feldstetten) was a German archaeologist from the University of Tübingen who worked with the SS Ahnenerbe in their excavations, and led the teams that excavated the Vogelherd Cave in 1931, the Heuneburg Tumulus burial mounds in 1937 and the Brillenhöhle 1955–63.{{cite book|author=Sanz, Nuria (UNESCO)|title=Human origin sites and the World Heritage Convention in Eurasia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kmnuCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA85|date=7 September 2015|publisher=UNESCO Publishing|isbn=978-92-3-100109-3|pages=85–}}{{cite book|author=Hansjürgen Müller-Beck|title=Die Steinzeit: der Weg der Menschen in die Geschichte|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WPG3FZxF9cAC&pg=PA7|year=2001|publisher=C.H.Beck|isbn=978-3-406-47719-5|pages=7–}}{{cite book|title=Fundberichte aus Schwaben|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VN6bhuiStYYC|year=1967}}{{cite book|author=Michael A. Jochim|title=A Hunter-Gatherer Landscape: Southwest Germany in the Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GCSyy6Lzi7cC|date=31 May 1998|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-0-306-45741-8}}{{cite book|author=Svante Pääbo|title=Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kqVVDgAAQBAJ|date=11 February 2014|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=978-0-465-08068-7}}

At Vogelherd, Riek discovered ivory figurines of the Aurignacian archeological tradition.{{Cite journal|last=Floss|first=Harald|date=2015-12-12|title=The Oldest Portable Art: the Aurignacian Ivory Figurines from the Swabian Jura (Southwest Germany)|url=http://journals.openedition.org/palethnologie/888|journal=Palethnologie. Archéologie et sciences humaines|language=en|issue=7|doi=10.4000/palethnologie.888|issn=2108-6532|doi-access=free}}