Oldest Sculptures (and oldest religious sculptures) unearthed

MSNBC news article says sheds light on earliest human religions. It seems that birds, horses, and leonine creatures (no, not reptoids) are the oldest shamanic beings:
www.msnbc.msn.com...

(have you guys ever seen the button that says "the reason cats smile is that they know that 40,000 years ago THEIR ancestors ate OUR ancestors"??)


Less enthused, fewer leaps to conclusions, but interesting.

www.nature.com...

Oldest sculptures unearthed
Carvings show early Europeans' prodigious skill.
18 December 2003
MICHAEL HOPKIN

A set of ivory figurines found in southwestern Germany add to a growing cache of the oldest art known.

The 30,000-year-old carvings underline the remarkable creativity of our earliest European ancestors. Nicholas Conard of the University of T�bingen, Germany, discovered the 2-centimetre-high figures in the Hohle Fels Cave in the country's Swabia region1.

The figurines, and similar relics previously unearthed in Swabia, are the earliest known representations of living forms. "Without question, they are the oldest corpus of figurative art in the world," says archaeologist Anthony Sinclair of the University of Liverpool, UK.

Very cool. I suppose some will say those Lion-man are some sort of aliens hehe.... "good cosmic kitty"