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Points; These classic points from the Solutrean period in France were crafted by a completely modern... | 
Rock art; Bushmen in South Africa painted this rock art portrait of their most precious symbol, an e... | 
Stone tools from Hayonim Cave, Israel. These tools were from early modern humans, c. 60,000 bp.... | | | | 
Drakensberg Cave art, South Africa... | 
Statue; clay statuette, 34,000 to 26,500 years old, Dolni Vestonice, Czech Republic... | 
Kebara Cave; modern human tools, Israel... | | | | 
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Cave; archaeological site at Hayonim Cave, Israel... | 
Human brain, Zurich, Switzerland... | | | | 
Gymnast; male on rings... | 
Fossil; Mungo Lake fossil, Australia... | 
Skull; Qafzeh IX, anatomically modern Homo sapiens, 92,000 years old, Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem,... | | | | 
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Harpoon tips: resting on fish, for spear fishing, 70,000 to 12,000 years old, National Museum of Pre... | 
Altamria Cave; cave painting of bison, Altamira Museum and Research Center, Spain... | | | | 
Bone needle; appearing around 26,000 years ago, used to sew hide and fur garments, National Academy ... | 
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Carving; 15,000 year old ghostly human-like figure carved from mammoth tusk, Mezhirich, Ukraine... | | | | 
Skulls; 58,000 year old Neandertal skull from Amud Cave, Israel (left) and 92,000 year old skull fro... |
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