World’s Earliest Figurative Sculpture - Ice Age Lion Man (40,000 Year-Old Mammoth Ivory Statue)

The Art Newspaper ^ | Saturday 9 Feb 2013 | The Art Newspaper

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Thanks DogByte6RER. The star exhibit initially promised for the British Museum's "Ice Age Art" show will not be coming -- but for a good reason. New pieces of Ulm's Lion Man sculpture have been discovered and it has been found to be much older than originally thought, at around 40,000 years. This makes it the world’s earliest figurative sculpture. At the London exhibition, which opens on 7 February, a replica from the Ulm Museum will instead go on display. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.