NUTR 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hohle Fels, Venus Figurines, Relief
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Found at site all over europe date between 35,000 to 20,000. Most of them are portable: these pieces of art are carved figurines depicting the human female form. Female form(large breast and abdomen), women fertility, could be pregnant women, could be items of erotica, the meaning of them is not fully understood, it"s difficult to interpret them. No facial characteristics: examples of venus figurines include: Venus of willendorf, most well known, austria, small, 4 inches, 22-24 thousand years old, hair carving. Could me style or covering on the head. Venus of brassempouy ivory, it has a face, 30,000 years old, oldest representation of the human face. Also very elaborate head carving, evidence of textiles, incomplete, Venus of lespugue from france, very large breasts and hips, small statue around. Hohlenstein site: 32,000-year-old lion headed figurine made from mammoth ivory male body, human and animal characteristics. 28 cm, head of a lion and body of a man.
