A figurine carved out of mammoth ivory was recently found in the Hohle Fels Cave in the southern German region of Swabia, not far from the Danube valley. At least thirty-five-thousand years old, and perhaps as old as forty-thousand years, it is believed to be the oldest human depiction ever found. The carving, called the Venus of Hohle Fels, represents an anatomically-correct woman with enormous breasts, wide hips, and a gigantic vulva. Its head, arms, and legs are barely depicted, though. A symbol of fertility, it is bordering on the pornographic. As such, it beats the famous Venus of Willendorf, which is about twenty-five-thousand years old, by a wide margin. Looking at the two figurines side by side, one cannot but feel almost sorry for the more recent one.