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The Ain Sakhri lovers figurine is a sculpture that was found in one of the Ain Sakhri caves near Bethlehem.〔 The sculpture is considered to be 11,000 years old and to be the oldest known representation of two people engaged in sexual intercourse.〔(A History of the World -7 ), BBC.co.uk, accessed July 2010〕 ==Discovery== The sculpture was identified in 1933 by René Neuville,〔Neuville is known for his work with Skhul and Qafzeh hominids in the Lavant〕 a French consul in Jerusalem〔Neuville represented the French Republic as vice-consul at Jerusalem from 1928 to 1937 and as consul-general from 1946 to 1952; see (footnote on page 301 of ''Les Mandats Francais Et Anglais Dans Une Perspective'' (in French) )〕 and prehistorian, when looking through random finds obtained by the French Fathers at Bethlehem. He found the stone whilst visiting a small museum with Abbé Breuil.〔 Neuville immediately identified it as important and was able to get an introduction to the Bedouin who had made the finds at Wadi Khareitoun. He was led to a location within the Ain Sakhri caves and it is from these caves that the sculpture gets its name. Excavations of the caves revealed that the cave had been used domestically thousands of years ago and the finds were Natufian. For this reason it is thought that the figurine was used domestically and had not been left there as part of a funeral.〔 The person who made the sculpture came from the Natufians, an early culture whose members are thought to be the first humans to gather grass seeds that remained attached to their stems.〔 This is an important step in agriculture as it eventually allowed farmers to choose which seeds to eat and which to keep to sow the following season.〔 These people hunted gazelle and are the first known to domesticate dogs, sheep, and goats which also involves selective breeding. It has been speculated that the stability of having a managed food programme allowed the Natufians to create large communities of two to three hundred people and to create art.〔(A History of the World in 100 objects - Part 7 ), BBC Radio 4, 26 January 2010, (transcript ), accessed 23 July 2010〕
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