I love reading about pre-history and from time to time I come across this archaeological discovery called “an oldest example of an anthropomorphic human-animal figure.”

Indeed, its an incredible story about the change in cognition and figurative thought on Homo Sapiens. Humans from 40,000 years ago worshiping some type of God with a lion’s face? its a cool story, but what evidence really points to it being a human body with a lion’s head and not the obvious, but much more boring, Brown Bear standing?

It is widely known that North-Eurasiand had, and still have, Bear Cults and the Brown Bear have an ecological niche quite similar to those of humans, so of course they would meet a lot and probably would compete for the same spaces, especially the caves in the winter.