26,000 BP to 23,000 BC

25,000 BP, France: At Brassempouy Venus figure was carved which may be the oldest known example to have facial figures.

25,000 BP: France at Brassempouy: A Venous Figurine is carved which is the oldest example of facial features.

~ Czech Republic: Venus of Petrkovice from Petrkovice in Ostrava was made about this time. It is now in the Archaeological Institute, Brno.

24,000 BP: Russia at Kostenky in the Don region: An unusually decorated figurine is carve carved from limestone.

~ Venus of Brassempouy, found in Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy, Landes

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~ Russia: at Kostenky in the Don region: An unusually decorated figurine is carve carved from limestone. Russia: an unusually decorated female was carved in limestone at Kostenky, in the Don river region.

~ last glacial maximum.

~ Austria: Venus of Willendorf was made. It is now at Nature historisches Museum, Vienna.

~ North Africa: The second Mousterian Pluvial started.

23,000 BP, Russia: Someone carved a figure of a flying bird, in mammoth ivory, in the Malta settlement in Siberia.

~ to 19,000 BP: Solutrian culture may have reached Ireland as it did France, Spain, and England.

~ Czech Republic: Venus of Petrkovice in Ostrava was made.It is now in the Archaeological Institute, Brno.