This female figurine, discovered by Austrian archaeologist Josef Szombathy in 1908, represents the classic stylization of a mature, heavily obese woman.
The torso of a female figure carved from ivory, referred to as the Moravany or “White” Venus.
Less a figurine and more the carved relief of a woman in ivory, this Venus was found in several fragments at the locality of Avdeevo in Russia, a site from which has emerged other female figures…
The use of stylized geometric shapes makes the schematic carving of the woman known as the “Venus of Předmostí” unique – it has absolutely no contemporary equivalent.
The portrayal of a specific individual appears very seldom in Palaeolithic art. The first evidence in fact comes from the dig at Dolní Věstonice I.
Stick decorated with linear incisions to create a stylized female figure with strongly accentuated breasts. By changing our viewing angle we can see that the symbol also encodes the male principle…