Researchers say strange 16,000 year old lines found in Bavarian cave thought to show a phallus were NOT made by humans

It has been claimed they were the earliest example of stone age art ever seen in Germany, showing a man, a woman and a phallus. The find at the 75m long Mäanderhöhle cave in Bavaria was hailed as a major breakthrough, with hundreds of lines found to form patterns believed to be fertility symbols. An archaeologist studied these lines several years later and published his interpretation of them in a preliminary report, in which he said that the between 14,000 and 16,000 year-old lines were made by humans and probably depicted a phallus and abstract female figures. The find at the 75m long Mäanderhöhle cave in Bavaria was hailed as a major breakthrough, with hundreds of lines found to form patterns believed to be fertility symbols. Here, a 3D scan shows the strange lines which experts now say were formed by'natural processes'.