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Ice Age Artists Turned the Natural Patterns of Mammoth Tusks into Art 18,000 Years Ago
Around 18,000 years ago, artists living in what is now northern Ukraine carved small human figures from mammoth ivory. A new study suggests that the patterns covering these objects were shaped by the natural structure of the ivory itself. Researchers made the discovery after examining 18 figurines from Mizyn, one of Ukraine’s most important Upper…
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12,000-Year-Old Rock Engravings Discovered Beneath Türkiye’s Atatürk Dam Reveal One of the Oldest Hunting Scenes in the Euphrates Basin
Underwater Paleolithic panel shows humans and animals carved into an 8-meter rock surface Beneath the deep waters of Türkiye’s Atatürk Dam, archaeologists have rediscovered a series of Paleolithic rock engravings estimated to be at least 12,000 years old — an extraordinary survival from the dawn of symbolic human art in the Euphrates Basin. The site,…