Oldest known swastika, 15,000 years old, carved on mammoth ivory bird figurine at Ukrainian Paleolithic site.
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Mizyn site in Ukraine yields 15,000-year-old swastika on bird figurine. Swastika forms intricate meander pattern from mammoth ivory. Magdalenian hunters lived in mammoth-bone reinforced dwellings. They left 113,000 flint pieces including 4,500 tools like spear tips. Artifacts include women and mammoth sculptures with geometric motifs. Site produced oldest mammoth-bone musical instruments. Discoveries date to Upper Paleolithic 10,000 BCE per Campbell. Swastika predates modern appropriation by millennia. Artifacts preserved in Kyiv museums. Site now Mizyn National Nature Park.

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