In their view, Conards’ find supports an earlier proposal that figurative art emerged in Europe roughly 32,000 years ago, more than 5,000 years after modern humans reached Europe. He regards the Hohle Fels figurine as a precursor of the famous Venus figurines that have been found over the past century at European sites dating to between 29,000 and 25,000 years ago. “This is a great find, but it supports rather than refutes my argument that there was no figurative art in Europe until the later Aurignacian, more than 5,000 years after initial settlement by modern humans,” comments João Zilhão of the University of Bristol in England, who also thinks the figurine was made around 32,000 years ago.