Ivory carving
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Ivory carving is the carving of ivory, that is to say animal tooth or tusk, generally by using sharp cutting tools, either mechanically or manually. Objects carved in ivory are often called "ivories".
The Venus of Brassempouy, about 25,000 BP
11th-century Anglo-Saxon ivory cross reliquary of walrus ivory
Ivory headrest of Tutankhamun, 1330s BC
The Barberini Diptych for a victorious early 6th century Byzantine emperor
Venus of Brassempouy
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The Venus of Brassempouy is a fragmentary ivory figurine from the Upper Palaeolithic, apparently broken from a larger figure at some time unknown. It was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in
Ivory carving
…recovered from permafrost and used; this became a large business in the 19th century, with convicts used for much of the labour. The 25,000-year-old Venus of Brassempouy, arguably the earliest real likeness of a human face, was carved from mammoth ivory no doubt freshly killed. In northern Europe during the Early Middle…
Venus de Brassempouy
A reconstruction by Libor Balák of the Venus (or Lady) of Brassempouy, from the Western Brassempouy. The reconstruction is likely inaccurate on skin color, as Europeans are now known to have had darker skin 23-29,000 years ago. Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology in Brno, The Center for Paleolithic and Paleoethnological research.
"La figurine à la Ceinture" (The figurine with a belt), one of several Venus figurines discovered alongside the Venus of Brassempouy