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9,000-Year-Old Ain Ghazal Statues Rewrite What We Thought We Knew About Early Human Art
Archaeologists are once again turning their attention to one of the most startling artistic breakthroughs of the Neolithic world: the monumental statues of Ain Ghazal, dating back nearly 9,000 years. Crafted between 7200–6250 BCE, these lime-plaster and reed figures rank among the earliest large-scale human representations ever created — and they refuse to fit into…