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Tag: ruminations

August 7, 2009

Ruminating on artifacts from 35,000 years ago

Two recent arti­facts tickle the imag­i­na­tion and, per­haps, raise some fig­ment of our core essence. They date to 35,000 years ago. The first is a fig­urine from the Hohle Fels Cave in south­west Ger­many. The sec­ond are musi­cal instru­ments from the same site. I report the dis­cov­ery of a female mammoth-ivory fig­urine in the basal Auri­gna­cian deposit […]