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Archaeologists excavating in the popular ancient Hohle Fels collapse Germany have actually revealed 2 bird figurines sculpted from massive ivory. The thumbnail-size carvings contribute to the existing proof that glacial epoch human beings had an advanced creative sense 40,000 years earlier.

“The figurines demonstrate that the earliest artists were skilled ivory-carvers, who could depict delicate motifs in miniature form,” Nicholas Conardan archaeologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany and director of excavations at Hohle Fels, stated in a July 29 declaration

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