Archaeologist Nicholas Conrad of Tu-bingen University in Germany in 2003 led a small team that found three sculptures in the Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabia region of southwest Germany that may be the world's oldest. Carved in ivory from a mammoth, these sculptures are 2.5-5 centimeters in length and are believed to be over 30,000 years old.
德國蒂賓根大學考古學家尼古拉斯・科納德，2003 年率領考古小組，在德國西南部的霍爾菲爾斯洞穴，發現 3 件可能是世界上最古老的藝術品，這批以遠古時代猛瑪象牙雕刻而成的微雕，尺寸約 2.5cm－5cm，年代可遠溯到 3 萬多年前。