Discovery of the sexually explicit figurine of a woman, dating to 35,000 years ago, provides striking evidence of the symbolic explosion that occurred in the earliest populations of Homo sapiens in Europe.
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Mellars, P. Origins of the female image. Nature 459, 176–177 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/459176a
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