Although it may seem a lie, given the state of war the country is in, work continues in Syria on some of the multiple archaeological sites that dot its territory.
In Tell Qarassa , a team of researchers led by distinguished representatives of the Spanish Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) has discovered a fossil bone, from the rib of a large bovid, which has two schematic human faces carved.
It is estimated that its antiquity is dated at around 10,000 years , which places it among the first representations of human figures that emerged at the beginning of the Neolithic Age . The transition from hunter-gatherer communities to agricultural and livestock societies entails an artistic evolution whose protagonist is the individual in the face of the profusion of naturalistic animal representations.
