Mansfield -- An ivory figurine thought to be 40,000 years old may hold clues to the origins of art, an expert says.
The figurine of a woman measures nearly 2.4 inches in height and has been tabbed the earliest 3-D artistic representation of humans, the Los Angeles Times said Thursday.
Archaeologist Daniel Adler of the University of Connecticut said the figurine found in a cave in Germany's Swabian Jura region by archaeologist Nicholas J. Conard should offer valuable insights into the history of both art and humankind, the Los Angeles Times said Thursday.
"The origin and evolution of figurative art, portable art, appear on most lists of what constitutes modern human behavior," Adler said.
