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Discovered in a cave in southern Poland in the 1980s, this prehistoric boomerang was made from a mammoth tusk and estimated to be 18,000 years old. But new analysis has uncovered that the boomerang is between 39,000 to 42,000 years old, making it the oldest known boomerang in history.
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8,000 year old prehistoric obsidian mirrors found in the ruins of the Neolithic settlement known as Çatalhöyük, Turkey, and were made c. 6400 BCE. These are the oldest manufactured mirrors in the world; the convex carving suggest they were also used to light up dark spaces during the day
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The Double Venus, also known as the Beauty and the Beast, is a carved serpentine pendant with a female representation back to back with that of an animal or a chimera. The illustration was made by Libor Balák in collaboration with the Czech Academy of Sciences. Italy, 22,000-17,000 BCE
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Two 2×1×0.5 cm bird figurines carved in detail from mammoth ivory and thought to be 40,000 years old were recovered by a team from the University of Tübingen. They were found in the lower layers of the Aurignacian Paleolithic culture in Hohle Fels a UNESCO World Heritage Cave.
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