There are close cultural links between animals and musical instruments. Parts of animals, bones, teeth, horn, hair, skin, and gut have inspired humans to build instruments. Whether the first verifiable wind instruments made of gryphon vulture bones and mammoth teeth (Geissenklösterle, Hohle Fels and Vogelherd caves) were attributed a magical power to elicit living sounds from the dead animal again, eludes our knowledge. The construction of the instruments from the Aurignacian shows great care and—in the case of the instrument made of mammoth tooth—a striking craftsmanship. The famous statuette of the lion man from the Hohlenstein-Stadel in the Lone Valley, also carved from mammoth tooth, dates from the same place and period. As a mixed creature it reflects a world full of dangers, which humans wanted to banish and master. The strength of the animal is combined with the upright posture typical of man as a sign of consciousness.