Two figures clasp each other face to face, pecked out of a single calcite cobble with a stone point about 11,000 years ago. Found in a cave near Bethlehem used by Natufian people, it is thought to be the oldest known depiction of a couple having sex. There are no faces, and the sex of each figure can only be presumed, but the intimacy of the pose is clear.
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Turn it and it changes: as the artist Marc Quinn has noted, from other angles the same stone reads as a phallus, breasts or a vulva.
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