Editing Sculpture (section)

====Ancient Near East====
From the [[ancient Near East]], the over-life sized stone [[Urfa Man]] from modern [[Turkey]] comes from about 9,000 BCE, and the [['Ain Ghazal Statues]] from around 7200 and 6500 BCE.  These are from modern [[Jordan]], made of lime plaster and reeds, and about half life-size; there are 15 statues, some with two heads side by side, and 15 busts.  Small clay figures of people and animals are found at many sites across the Near East from the [[Pre-Pottery Neolithic]], and represent the start of a more-or-less continuous tradition in the region.

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File:Loewenmensch2.jpg|[[Löwenmensch figurine|Löwenmensch]], from [[Hohlenstein-Stadel]], now in Ulmer Museum, [[Ulm]], [[Germany]], the oldest known [[anthropomorphic]] animal-human statuette, [[Aurignacian]] era, c.{{nbsp}}35–40,000{{nbsp}}BP
File:Adorant Geissenkloesterle Blaubeuren.jpg|[[Adorant from the Geißenklösterle cave]], [[Germany]], c.{{nbsp}}35–40,000{{nbsp}}BP
File:MUT-9846.jpg|[[Wild horse]] from the Vogelherd cave, [[Germany]], c.{{nbsp}}33–35,000{{nbsp}}BP
File:Venus-de-Laussel-vue-generale-noir.jpg|[[Venus of Laussel]] c.{{nbsp}}27,000{{nbsp}}BP, an Upper Palaeolithic carving, Bordeaux museum, France
File:Speerschleuder LaMadeleine.jpg|''Creeping Hyena,'' c.{{nbsp}}12–17,000{{nbsp}}BP, [[Elephant and mammoth ivory|mammoth ivory]], found in [[Abri de la Madeleine|La Madeleine]], France
File:GLAM Ice Age 238.jpg|''[[Swimming Reindeer]]'' c.{{nbsp}}13,000 BP, female and male swimming reindeer – late [[Magdalenian]] period, found at Montastruc, Tarn et Garonne, France
File:Urfa man.jpg|[[Urfa Man]], in the [[Şanlıurfa Museum]]; sandstone, 1.80 meters, {{Circa|9,000 BCE}}
File:Stone statue, late Jomon period.JPG|A [[Jōmon]] [[dogū]] figure, 1st millennium BCE, Japan
File:Solvognen-00100.jpg|The [[Trundholm sun chariot]], perhaps 1800–1500 BCE; this side is [[gilding|gilded]], the other is "dark".
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