Ice Age Art and the question of sex
There are many old friends in the British Museum’s must-see Ice Age Art exhibition. As a research student in the early 1970s I worked for several months in the Ulmer Museum in southern Germany. Every day on my way into the storerooms to measure more Palaeolithic reindeer teeth I passed the ivory statuette of the Löwenmensch, the Lion-headed-man.
There was less of him in those days. His muzzle had not yet been handed in and big chunks of his back were missing.
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