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I'm going to designate this as one of the earliest examples of an open educational resource (OER). It's an engraving of a fish and fish netting found in an ice-age camp site located at Gönnersdorf on the banks of the Rhine. The importance of fishing in an ice-age culture underlines the need to pass on the knowledge from one generation to the next. Here's the original publication.

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