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    A Venus figurine is any Upper Palaeolithic statue portraying a woman, usually carved in the round. Most have been unearthed in Europe, but others have...
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    The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-tall (4.4 in) Venus figurine estimated to have been made c. 30,000 years ago. It was recovered on 7 August...
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  • Fels, vom Hohle Fels; Venus von Schelklingen) is an Upper Paleolithic Venus figurine made of mammoth ivory that was unearthed in 2008 in Hohle Fels, a cave...
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    The Venus figurines of Kostenki are prehistoric representations of the female body, usually in ivory and usually dated to between 25,000 and 20,000 years...
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    The Venus figurines of Mal’ta (also: Malta) are several palaeolithic female figurines of the Mal'ta–Buret' culture, found in Siberia, Russia. They consist...
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    The Venus of Dolní Věstonice (Czech: Věstonická venuše) is a Venus figurine, a ceramic statuette of a nude female figure dated to 31,000–27,000 years...
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    The Venus figurines of Petersfels are several small female statuettes from the Upper Paleolithic era, carved from jet lignite. The tallest figurine is...
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    figurine and is currently known as the Venus of Berekhat Ram (the term "Venus" was taken from the conventional name of much younger Venus figurines of...
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    Venus figurine No. 2 from Zaraysk Extraction of a figurine by archaeologists Venus figurines of Mal'ta Venus figurines of Gagarino Venus figurines of...
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    The Venus figurines from Gönnersdorf, at Neuwied, are paleolithic sculptures depicting the female body. Gerhard Bosinski led the excavations between 1968...
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    The Venus of Lespugue is a Venus figurine, a statuette of a female figure of the Gravettian, dated to between 26,000 and 24,000 years ago. It was discovered...
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    The Venus of Moravany (Slovak: Moravianska venuša) is a small prehistoric Venus figurine discovered in Slovakia in the early 20th century. It was ploughed...
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    The Venus of Galgenberg is a Venus figurine of the Aurignacian era, dated about 36,000 years ago. The sculpture, also known in German as the Fanny von...
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    France). The Magdalenian "Venus" from Laugerie-Basse is headless, footless, armless but with a strongly incised vulva. The figurine is eight centimetres tall...
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    The Venus figurines of Balzi Rossi (also: Venus figurines of Grimaldi, Venus figurines from the Balzi-Rossi-Caves) from the caves near Grimaldi di Ventimiglia...
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    there are extant Neolithic figurines. European prehistoric figurines of women, some appearing pregnant, are called Venus figurines, because of their presumed...
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    The Venus figurines of Gagarino are eight Palaeolithic Venus figurines made from ivory. The statuettes belong to the Gravettian industry and are about...
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  • Venus of Buret' may refer to any of the five Venus figurines found from archeological site of Buret' in Siberia near Irkutsk and the Angara river valley...
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    The Venus of Eliseevichi is a Venus figurine from the Epigravettian exhibited at the Hermitage Museum. The figurine was discovered in 1930, near the Sudost...
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    The Venus of Monruz (also Venus of Neuchâtel, Venus of Neuchâtel-Monruz) is a Venus figurine of the late Upper Paleolithic, or the beginning Epipaleolithic...
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    the Venus of Brassempouy belonged to an Upper Palaeolithic material culture, the Gravettian (29,000–22,000 BP). More precisely, they date the figurine to...
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  • individualized features. As time went on, figurines were given more details and the signature coiffures of the Venus figurines as well as breasts or suggestions...
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    The Venus of Mauern (also: Rote von Mauern, "the red one of Mauern") is a Venus figurine from the paleolithic era. The statuette stems from the Gravettian...
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    The Venus of Petřkovice (Czech: Petřkovická venuše or Landecká venuše) is a pre-historic Venus figurine, a mineral statuette of a nude female figure,...
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  • The Venus of Savignano is a Venus figurine made from soft greenstone (serpentine) dating back to the Upper Paleolithic, which was discovered in 1925 near...
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    weathering. Venus of Berekhat Ram Venus of Hohle Fels Prehistoric art Art of the Middle Paleolithic Bednarik, Robert G. (2003). "A Figurine from the African...
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    The Löwenmensch figurine, also called the Lion-man of Hohlenstein-Stadel, is a prehistoric ivory sculpture discovered in Hohlenstein-Stadel, a German cave...
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    ISBN 1-884964-98-2. Vénusfigurine (photograph). Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. Retrieved 19 February 2021. Schilling, R. (1954). La religion romaine de Venus depuis...
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    The Jōmon Venus (縄文のビーナス, Jōmon no Bīnasu) is a dogū, a humanoid clay female figurine from the Middle Jōmon period (3,000–2,000 BC), discovered in 1986...
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    color through the use of acid staining. The figurine has often been compared to the Venus of Tan-Tan. The figurine was "found" in Nampa, Idaho in July 1889...
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