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
Venus de Brassempouy
Front and side view of the Venus of 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
Gravettian
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The Gravettian is an archaeological industry of the European Upper Paleolithic that succeeded the Aurignacian circa 33,000 years BP. It is archaeologically the last European culture many consider unif
Venus of Brassempouy
…Modern reanalysis of the site has been performed under the direction of Henri Delporte during 1981–2000. In 1894, one of those strata, recognized now as Gravettian, yielded several fragments of statuettes, including the "Lady with the Hood". Piette considered the figures as closely related to the representations…
Female face, ivory carving, Dolní Věstonice, Gravettian, 28 000 22 000 BP
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The Venus of Moravany, made of mammoth tusk ivory