Venus of Lespugue

FRONT

(Aurignacian Period)

height 147 mm (approx. 6 inches)

(Museé des Antiquités Nationales, Paris)















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Women in Prehistory
The "Venus" of Lespugue
  


Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe

















       The "Venus" of Lespugue was found in 1922 in the Rideaux cave of Lespugue (Haute-Garonne) in the foothills of the Pyrenees.
It is carved from a fragment of mammoth ivory tusk, of which much of the front portion has been restored [an image of the restored Venus of Lespugue]. 
 



     

Venus of Lespugue










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