like the newly discovered figurine. The collision of these peoples and their cultures resulted in a "prehistoric crossroads of cultural exchange," Szymczak, an archaeologist at the University of ...

In a discovery reshaping the understanding of prehistoric cultures in Eurasia, archaeologists found an 8,400-year-old stone human figurine in Damjili Cave, located in the limestone hills of ...

Others perceive some prehistoric figurines—including a half-lion, half-man —not as imaginative works but literal depictions of hallucinations experienced by tribal shamans. The Venus has ...