Oldest Venus figurine
UPDATE: The journal article from Nature can be downloaded here (PDF)—don’t know for how long, though. The oldest known Venus figurine has been discovered at Hohle Fels cave, about 20 km southwest of...
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Reader Anna McDonnell of Santa Monica, California writes in this week’s Nature that perhaps we should be more thoughtful in how we describe ancient artifacts such as the recently discovered Venus...
View ArticleUpper Palaeolithic bone flutes from Germany
This is somewhat old news by this point, but a new report in the journal Nature reports that a nearly complete Upper Palaeolithic bone flute (and fragments of several others) dating from around 35,000...
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