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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>[ Enlarge Image]<br>This tiny bird statuette is the oldest known example of 3D Chinese art.<br><br>Francesco d'Errico and Luc Doyon<br><br><br>A tiny piece of [http://www.ehow.com/search.html?s=burned%20bone burned bone] carved into the shape of a bird is extending the tradition of Chinese sculptural art back by thousands of years. <br>An international team of researchers led by archaeologist [ Zhanyang Li] of Shandong University in China  investigated a statuette recovered from the Lingjing paleolithic site in China's Henan province. The researchers say it depicts a standing bird and  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/review-kinh-nghiem-tu-a-den-z-tour-phuong-hoang-co-tran-truong-gia-gioi-vien-gia-gioi-tu-sai-gon-6-ngay-5-dem.html phượng hoàng cổ trấn] shows clear signs of having been worked by human hands. <br><br><br><br><br>CNET Science <br><br><br><br><br>From the lab to your inbox. Get the latest science stories from CNET every week.<br><br><br><br><br><br>The team dated the figurine to around 13,500 years ago and  [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/blog/review-kinh-nghiem-tu-a-den-z-tour-phuong-hoang-co-tran-truong-gia-gioi-vien-gia-gioi-tu-sai-gon-6-ngay-5-dem.html phượng hoàng cổ trấn] published a [ detailed study of the sculpture in the journal PLOS ONE] this week. <br><br>"This discovery identifies an original artistic tradition and pushes back by more than 8,500 years the representation of birds in Chinese art," the authors said in a release on Wednesday.<br>