A 36,200-year-old carving from Grotte des Gorges, Amange, Jura, France
Abstract The earliest European carvings, made of mammoth ivory, depict animals, humans, and anthropomorphs.They are found at Early Aurignacian sites of the Swabian Jura in Germany.Despite the wide geographical spread of the Aurignacian across Europe, these carvings have no contemporaneous counterparts.Here, we document a small, intriguing object, t