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Ice Age Artists Took Cues from Ivory Itself, 18,000-Year-Old Figurines from Ukraine Suggest


Roughly 18,000 years ago, in what is now northern Ukraine, artists carved small female figurines from mammoth ivory and covered them with zigzags and meanders.

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