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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 14 > The oldest sculpture?

The oldest sculpture?

This voluptuous ivory figurine may change the way we conceive of man’s earliest art

By Thomas H. Maugh II / The Bulletin
May 14, 2009

A 40,000-year-old figurine of a busty women carved from mammoth ivory and excavated from a cave in southwestern Germany is the oldest known example of three-dimensional or figurative representation of humans and sheds new light on the origins of art, researchers reported Wednesday.

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