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11.3 Stylized female figure – “fork”
This stylized female body is an abstraction, a fork-like artefact, perforated to be hung. It evokes the figure of a woman, indicating genitals (a short notch at the crotch) and splayed legs.
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.
11.5 Female torso with a double groin symbol
A flat torso of a woman with a double symbol of the groin in the lower part – the accentuated pubic triangle is framed by the triangularly shaped legs.
11.6 Torso of a woman with a belt over her hips
A torso of a female figure with a spirally twisted band or belt-cord running over her hips.
11.7 Outline carving of a lion
Carvings and statues of lions appear on the Eurasian steppes with the arrival of the first anatomically modern humans into Europe (during the Aurignacian culture, 40,000 years BP).
11.8 Outline carving of a mammoth
As the most typical and most visible animal of the glacial fauna, the mammoth’s portrayal in Upper Palaeolithic art occurs relatively frequently. It was modelled in clay, carved in ivory or…