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Ice Age Art
From antler batons to mammoth pendants, a new exhibition in London boasts a mind-blowing display of the world's oldest known sculptures, drawings and portraits, crafted by the hands of Homo sapiens as long as 40,000 years ago. Ice Age Art: The Arrival of the Modern Mind runs from 7 February until 26 May 2013  The 'Lion Man' – a 32,000-year-old lion-headed man, carved from a mammoth tusk, from Hohlenstein-Stadel in Germany  The oldest known portrait will go on public display for the first time at the exhibition. It is the head of a woman, carved in ivory some 26,000 years ago. It was discovered in the 20s in Dolní Věstonice, a valley in present-day Moravia that was teeming with mammoth and reindeer in the last ice age  A 23,000-year-old abstract figure from Lespugue, France. Picasso was fascinated by it and it influenced his 30s sculptural works  Women and bison etched on a bone  A unique foot pendant made of mammoth ivory, which may have been used as a talisman against illness and bad luck  Horse head sculpture, carved in ivory, dating from the late Ice Age – approximately 13,000 years ago  A spear-thrower carved into the shape of a mammoth that was found at Montastruc, in the French department of Tarn-et-Garonne  The oldest known work of art from Wales: a horse chin decorated with zigzags  Part of a weapon, made from the upper section of a reindeer antler  · |
