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above: Fragment of a bone plate with engravings which represent an anthropomorphic being, with animal traits (prominent snout, signs graved on the back which could allude to hair) and human posture, facing a bear of which only part of the foreleg is visible. On the back of the plate (fig. 10 bis) a similar scene is engraved, in which an anthropomorphic figure seems to be knocked down by a bear’s paw. The artifact comes from the cave of the Mas d’Azil (Ariège, France) and its dating is attributable to about 15/11,000 years B.P. It is now exhibited in the Musée d'Archéologie Nationale, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. [Image: http://ancient-roots-of-civilizations.blogspot.it/2012/08/istoria-religiei_506.html] Fugure
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