A piece of bear bone carved 130,000 years ago is the oldest work of art in Eurasia. But it does not belong to us homo sapiens.
A new study shows that 9,400 years ago, hunter-gatherers in what is now Brazil created dozens of rock art designs next to fossilized dinosaur footprints.
According to the Nature magazine on December 4, an Australian scientist has discovered that the first work of art was created by human ancestors.
Archaeologists from the University of Tubigen (Germany) found ivory fragments belonging to an animal statue dating to about 40,000 years.