11.4 Stylized female figure

Carved decorative object, perhaps used as a pendant, where the form of a woman’s body is emphatically reduced to the shape of a simple, smoothed stick.

 

Material: mammoth ivory

Dimensions (height): 63 mm

Exhibit type: copy of original (plaster)

Archaeological site: Pavlov I (Pavlov near Dolní Věstonice, Moravia)

Collection: Institute of Archaeology of the CAS, Brno v.v.i., Czech Republic

Photo: M. Frouz