40,000-year-old bird carvings provide clues to how ice age humans flourished

TL;DR - Newly discovered 40,000-year-old bird figurines may illuminate skills that helped early humans flourish and expand across Europe. The provided excerpt does not detail the evidence or methods.

• The artifacts depict birds and date to roughly 40,000 years ago.
• Researchers connect them to early humans’ successful European expansion.
• Specific archaeological context and conclusions are not provided.