Nu visar det sig att lejonmänniskan från Hohlenstein Stadel kanske ändå är äldre än mammuten från Vogelherd.
Nu har man hittat fler bitar av konstverket och gjort nya dateringar.
Ice Age Lion Man is world’s earliest figurative sculpture
Work carved from mammoth ivory has been redated and 1,000 new fragments discovered—but it won’t make it to British Museum show
The star exhibit initially promised for the British Museum’s “Ice Age Art” show will not be coming—but for a good reason. New pieces of Ulm’s Lion Man sculpture have been discovered and it has been found to be much older than originally thought, at around 40,000 years. This makes it the world’s earliest figurative sculpture. At the London exhibition, which opens on 7 February, a replica from the Ulm Museum will instead go on display.
http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Ice%20Age%20%3Ci%3ELion%20Man%3C/i%3E%20is%20world’s%20earliest%20figurative%20sculpture/28595Lämnar man Europa så är kanske en delvis skulpterad klippformation i Rhino Cave i Botswana världens äldsta djuravbildning. Vissa vill tolka den som en avbildning av en pytonorm. Avbildningen är 70 000 år gammal.
The researchers found a large rock inside the cave that they say resembles a giant python, with natural features in the stone forming an eye and a mouth.
The 20-foot-by-6.5-foot (6-meter-by-2-meter) stone was also scarred by several hundred human-made grooves that may have been meant to resemble scales.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061222-python-ritual.html