The earliest evidence of artistic activity, in the form of diagonal etchings made with a sharks tooth, was found in 2014 on a 500,000-year-old fossil of a clam found in Java in the 1890s associated with Homo Erectus [REF].
There are other claims of Lower Paleolithic sculpture, dubbed the "Venus of Tan-Tan" (before 300 kya)[REF] and the "Venus of Berekhat Ram" (250 kya).