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A successive technical advancement is recorded in the Early Aurignacian (~ 40 ka BP) when mammoth ivory started to be manipulated for the production of pendants and mobiliary arts 5, 6, 7. In Europe, the oldest evidence of body adornment is documented at ~ 46 ka BP in the Initial Upper Paleolithic layers of Bacho Kiro where several carnivore teeth were worked into pendants 3, 4. Timing when and where personal ornaments appeared in the archaeological record are important for reconstructing the trajectories of abstract thinking of archaic humans and understanding how figurative representations varied through time 1, 2. The emergence of decoration and adornment of the human body is considered one of the earliest manifestations of symbolic behavior, marking the beginning of ethnolinguistic identity and social complexity in human evolution 1, 2. Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 22078 ( 2021)
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A 41,500 year-old decorated ivory pendant from Stajnia Cave (Poland)