What is the earliest sculpture found in Europe?

The earliest sculptures found in Europe come from cave art and musical instrument art, and European cave art is mainly concentrated in southwest France and northern Spain. It belongs to the late Paleolithic period (30000- 10000). There are a few rock wall reliefs in cave art, which show the nude images of women and animal images. Among these images of naked women, the most intact one is the relief "Woman with Corners" made at the site of Rosell in Orgna cultural period (an early stage of the late Paleolithic). This is a 40 cm high front image of a naked woman holding a big trumpet cup in her right hand. Naked women are plump, and female characteristics such as breasts, lower abdomen and buttocks are exaggerated. The traces of the original red paint can be faintly seen on the body of the female image. The relief "Embrace" is also a precious original relief preserved in the site of Rosell. There are two heads on this relief, one of which is obviously female. The other one is vague, and it is speculated that it may be a male figure.

In a deep valley in Ang Gulaim, there is a rectangular square, which is supposed to be a place of sacrifice. On the rock wall of the square, there is a group of animal reliefs belonging to the period of Solut culture. The animals represented are mainly mammoths, horses, pigs, deer, cows, etc., each with its own shape and lifelike. The most striking thing about these reliefs is that most of them show pregnant females, and the other thing is that almost all the images of animals are upside down. At present, the explanation given by primitive sculptors is that primitive humans prayed for the large-scale reproduction of eaten animals and wanted to capture them with the help of witchcraft and spells. There is a similar relief on the rock wall in front of an open square in Kakablan, France, with seven horses, reindeer, mammoths and cows. The longest of the seven horses is 2.3 meters, and the whole relief is 12 meters long, which looks very spectacular.