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Nature 426, 774-775 (18 December 2003) | doi:10.1038/426774a
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Archaeology: Art of the ancients
Anthony Sinclair1
Abstract
One might imagine that the first examples of art would be simple and crude. New finds bolster the evidence that modern humans were astonishingly quick in developing their artistic skills.
Excavations at the cave site of Hohle Fels in southwestern Germany have unearthed three small animal figurines, as Nicholas Conard reports on page 830 of this issue1. The figurines, none longer than 2 cm, were carved out of mammoth ivory sometime between 30,000 and 33,000 years ago by some of the first modern humans to colonize Europe.
- Anthony Sinclair is in the Department of Archaeology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK.
Email: a.g.m.sinclair@liv.ac.uk
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