A 23,000-year-old limestone Venus figurine has been uncovered in northern France.
“We were expecting to find classical vestiges such as tooled flint or bones,” said archaeologist Clement Paris.
But on their second day of fieldwork, the team found a pile of limestone that included fragments which did not seem natural.
“That same night we carefully pieced together the 20-odd fragments and realized it was a female statuette,” he added.
Carbon-14 dating showed the statue to be 23,000 years old.
Story: RelaxNews | Photo: Denis Charlet, AFP
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