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For #FindsFriday an amazing object from yesterday's visit to Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren - an #IceAge masterpiece! The so-called Venus of Hohle Fels (a cave on the Swabian Jura) was carved in mammoth ivory some 40,000 years ago. The 6cm long figurine is the world’s oldest known representation of a human. It lacks a head. Instead, a carved ring is placed above the shoulders. The ring preserves polish, suggesting that the figurine was worn as a pendant.