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Published online 18 December 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031215-8
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Oldest sculptures unearthed
Carvings show early Europeans' prodigious skill.
A set of ivory figurines found in southwestern Germany add to a growing cache of the oldest art known.
The 30,000-year-old carvings underline the remarkable creativity of our earliest European ancestors.
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