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| c. 35,000 years ago |
| | | The Neanderthals vanish quite suddenly from the fossil record, leaving modern humans as the only surviving members of our species | |
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| c. 31,000 years ago |
| | | Rhinoceroses, lions and mammoth feature on the walls of the Chauvet cave, in southern France | |
|  | Rhinoceros in the Chauvet cave
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| c. 30,000 years ago |
| | | With the onset of the most recent Ice Age (the Holocene), layers of ice up to two miles thick blanket northern regions, causing a massive reduction in sea level | |
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| c. 29,000 years ago |
| | | In the Cosquer cave near Marseilles, with its entrance now far below sea level, a hand print is made | |
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| c. 27,000 years ago |
| | | In the earlist known example of ceramics, humans at Dolni Vestonice model figures in burnt clay | |
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| c. 25,000 years ago |
| | | A Stone Age sculptor shapes a timeless image of female fecundity in the famous Willendorf Venus | |
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| c. 25,000 years ago |
| | | A Brassempouy, in France, a Venus figurine is carved which is the oldest known example to have facial features | |
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| c. 24,000 years ago |
| | | An unusually decorated female figurine is carved from limestone at Kostenky, in the river Don region of Russia | |
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| c. 23,000 years ago |
| | | Someone carves a figure of a flying bird, in mammoth ivory, in the Malta settlement in Siberia | |
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| c. 18,000 years ago |
| | | A bison figurine is carved in mammoth ivory in the region of Zaraysk, southeast of Moscow | |
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