Is it a cave lion or a cave bear? As seen from the front right.Image credit: Ria Litzenberg/University of Tubingen
In the whole scheme of things, how important is this? Really? It’s a CARVING. Maybe of a fairy tale character.
Thousand of years from now someone will find half of a plaster of Paris hand print some kid made in kindergarten. The whole world will be in a tizzy wondering what it is.
I wonder if any of the “experts” even considered that this sculpture may have just been done by some talentless ice-age kid trying to make a statue of his dog?
Giant ground sloth!
It looks like a manatee.
I’d say it’s some kind of prehistoric democrat bobblehead.