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.
"Any time you can push the clock back on some of these behaviors, we get a better understanding of why these were important and were developed, where they were developed… and the roles they played in the social glue that holds groups together," he said.
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