Paleolithic and Neolithic Venuses

Venus of Dolni, Wilendorf and Lespugne,

The Venus was discovered logically, in Brassempouy, is a village in the Landas, south of France.  
Although the discovery took place in late nineteenth century, long before modern archaeological techniques were modernized, the context of the figurine has been checked by all possible means. Thanks to that there is no doubt that the Gravettian Venus Brassempouy belongs to one of the oldest cultures in the Upper Paleolithic, between 29000 and 22000 years old, although it says that another discoverer of data between 26000 and 24000 years old.  

The Venus of Brassempouy was carved from mammoth ivory. It measures 3.65 inches high, 2.2 inches wide and 1.9 inches thick.

The name of my Venus isn’t Venus of Brassempouy, mine is Venus number 10, But I didn’t know what’s her name. So Mingo told me that I had to do the Venus of Brassempouy, because it’s similar. aa.

Saw this activity carried out by LaSalle San Fernando School in Cadiz and some others in USA and was very curious to do it myself, it's been cool.

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a. Use internet to identify as many of the names of these statuettes, place where they were found and age.

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b. Carve a figurine after one of those models in clay.

- Take a picture of your statuette,

- Write a report about that venus, including

1. Name of the original venus,
2. Location where it was found and a map.
3. Approximate age of the figurine
4. Dimensions, size, approximately as well.
5. Name of the Venus that you created,
6. Other comments

This Venus is called Olisbo; Was found in Dolní Vestonice, República Checa.
This Venus is dated in 27,000 a.C. This venus statuette is sixteen centimeters long and three centimeters wide, but there are parts that are wider than the other. The top is 2.5 centimeters and the middle part seven centimeters wide.

This Venus is shaped like a dildo, and the information I have achieved is thanks to the name of "comforter”. The archaeologists who found the Venus decided it was a typical Paleolithic Venus, but stylized (though they can not explain the cross striations). This Paleolithic Venus there has little information, because I've been looking and can not find. Must be one of the least known Venus.

The name we put to the Venus that I created is: “Olisalba”.

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The Venus of Willendorf, is a female anthropomorphic statue of 20,000 or 22,000 years old. The work bears the name of the site on the banks of the Danube where it was discovered in 1908 byarchaeologist Josef Austrian Szombathy.

The figure of the naked woman of about 11.1 inches high, 5.7 wide and 4.5 inches thick with 15 in circumference and plump, wascarved monolithic oolitic limestone, which is not local in the regionPainted with red ocher.

The nickname which is known (Venus) cause rejection of somecurrent students who fail to see in this figure with obesity featuresthe classic image of beauty. Christopher Witcombe, a professor at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, for example, suggests that "theironic identification of these figures with" prehistoric beauty ideals"satisfied with current concepts (at the time it was discovered), onwhat was primitive man, on women and the aesthetic sense. Other authors have great reluctance to identify her as the MotherEarth from the Upper Paleolithic European culture because it isimpossible to find evidence for such speculation. Some suggest that the bulk represents a high social status in a hunter-gatherersociety and that, besides the obvious reference to fertility, the image could be also a symbol of safety, success and wellbeing.

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just wanted to update this entry with this picture from a sculpture which seems to follow a cannon of  female beauty that goes  back to the paleolithic and Neolithic venuses and I found delightful