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Your classmates are debating what types of art are the oldest known to us. Everyone has a different idea of what old pieces of art have been discovered. You offer to help solve your classmates’ debate. What would you tell them are the oldest pieces of art that are known to us?

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clay pots

clay pots

sculptures

sculptures

cave paintings

cave paintings

carvings

carvings

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carvings

Reason: the earliest known symbolic marks are engravings and carved objects (e.g., etched ochre and shells, some examples tens of thousands — and possibly hundreds of thousands — of years old), older than pottery and many figurative sculptures and cave paintings.