Lion man takes pride of place as oldest statue: 30,000-year-old carving might be work of Neanderthals or modern humans.
...and consider that it was carved some 25,000 years before the Egyptians started making such items. Man has had similar ideas about totems, familiars, nature and animals as gods and so on for so very very long. This article also touches on the debate regarding what exactly Neanderthal man was. There's a cool documentary running on PBS right now that takes a look at the neanderthal controversy: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/neanderthals/
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