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Joel Kontinen
This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.
It is from Hohle Fels cave, Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany. it looks like a modern bird, not featured by evolution.
“Archaeologists
excavating Hohle Fels cave in southwestern Germany over two decades ago
discovered three tiny figurines carved out of mammoth ivory. Dated to around
40,000 years ago, the sculptures represent some of the oldest examples of
figurative art, and the tiny carved bird is god, the oldest depiction of a bird anywhere in the world.”
The date of the bird is not correct, as such birds
came into existence about 6 000 years ago, when God created the world.
Source:
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