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80,000 BCE
Shell beads
Grotte des Pigeons (Taforalt, Morocco), -
71,000 BCE
Crosshatched Stone
Blombos Cave, South Africa -
42,000 BCE
Earliest cave paintings
Suweli, Indonesia -
38,000 BCE
Neanderthal beads
Grotte du Renne -
35,000 BCE
Lion Man
Germany -
35,000 BCE
Vulture bone flute
Hohle Fels, Germany -
28,000 BCE
Venus of Willendorf
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23,000 BCE
Brassempouy portrait head
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15,000 BCE
Lascaux caves
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12,000 BCE
Bison carved from reindeer antler
Magdalenian period -
12,000 BCE
Bone tools
Magdalenian period -
9000 BCE
Gobekli Tepe
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9000 BCE
Star Carr deer mask
Yorkshire, UK -
7000 BCE
Catalhoyuk, Turkey
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2500 BCE
Earliest Writing (Mesopotamia)
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2000 BCE
Ancient Egypt
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1600 BCE
Oracle bones (1st Chinese writing)
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80
Ancient Rome
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400
Ancient Mayans
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1506
Italian Renaissance
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