I'm digging through some paleolithic and neolithic art and I came across something I had never seen before: The world's oldest puppet/articulated figure! archive.org/details/TheO... Humans have apparently been making furries and had puppeteers since the Upper Paleolithic at least!
The Oldest Puppet Or Doll An Articulated Figure Made Of Mammoth Ivory ( 28 000 Years Ago)Earliest discovered example of a puppet or dollMale ivory statuette found in an upper Palaeolithic (Pavlovian) burial at Brno near Dolni Vestonic, Moravia in the Czech Republic. Around 28 000 years ...archive.org