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“Mysteries and Oddities: Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel, the oldest-known zoomorphic sculpture”
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The Lion Man of Hohlenstein-Stadel is a sculpture of a lion that is standing like a human, which was discovered in a German cave in 1939.  It is made out of a Wolly Mammoth tusk that is 35 to 40 thousand years old.  It is about a foot tall.  It is a “zoomorphic sculpture” (meaning it is a sculpture of an human with animal features).






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