"Venus" of Willendorf
c. 24,000-22,000 BCE
Oolitic limestone
43/8 inches (11.1 cm) high
(Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna)

Venus of Lespugue
FRONT
(Aurignacian Period)
height 147 mm (approx. 6 inches)
(Museé des Antiquités Nationales, Paris)

Venus from Savignano
height 22 cm (approx. 8 3/4")
(Aurignacian-Perigordian Period)

Venus of Laussel
c. 20,000-18,000 BCE
limestone
height 17 inches (43 cm)
Dordogne, France
(Musée d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux)


Women in Prehistory ADDITIONAL SITES Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe

Venus of Willendorf

Venus von Willendorf, with a link to Video-Album where you can download a QuickTime or an MPEG movie
The First Human Creations, including Lascaux, Venus of Willendorf, etc.
Femmes - Women - Déesses - Goddess: Johann Jakob Bachofen - Le Droit maternel. Recherche sur la gynécocratie de l'antiquité (through Librairie ambulatoire Freecyb) [in French]
Exorcising History: The Tortured Sacred Marriage of Humanity (from Chris King's The Genesis of Eden)
The Barbie of Willendorf a bit of humour from Jack Grey
Arte Paleolítica | Arte Móvel (through A arte paleolítica) [in Portugese]
An overview of Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia

Venus of Laussel

The Mother Goddess of Laussel

General

Female Imagery from the Paleolithic: The Grimaldi Case (Michael Bisson, Department of Anthropology, McGill University, and Randall White, Department of Anthropology, New York University)
Images of Magna Mater
The Origin of Sin and the Queen of Heaven
Prehistoric Art by Brian Clardy
The paleolithic painted cave of Lascaux, with a link to many images
La Grotte de Lascaux
Cave at Lascaux
Le Grotte Chauvet, south-eastern France
Chauvet Cave
Discovery of a Palaeolithic painted cave at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc (Ardèche), France
Le gisement du Roc-aux-Sorciers à Angles-sur-l'Anglin, Vienne, France
La grotte Cosquer, France
Menhirs and Dolmens in the Morbihan (Brittany, NW France)
Megalithic! Prehistoric Ritual Monuments within the British Isles (250 images available)
Megalithic Sites and Mounds, in the British Isles
Suns and Planets in Neolithic Rock Art
Ceramic Resources: Resources for the identification and analysis of prehistoric ceramics
Dolmen and grottoes of Bisceglie, in Apulia, Italy
Rock Art: Petroglyphs and Pictographs (links to Palaeolithic art, including Foz Côa, Chauvet, Lascaux, Font de Gaume, Grotte de Cougnac, Grotte de la Baume Latrone, Altamira, Venus figurines, etc.)
Valcamonica Rock Art
Seven Palaeolithic Figurines from the Louis Alexandre Jullien Collection
Paleolithic Art Gallery (Cameron Shelley)
Paleolithic Art in the Far South of Europe (through Laboratorio de Estudios Paleolíticos y Representaciones Artísticas L.E.P.R.A., Madrid)
Prehistoric Art of the Pyrenees, an exhibition, April 3 - July 8 1996, Musée des Antiquités nationales- Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Castle), with a link to the:
- Itinerary (including a number of images)
L'archeologia a Favignana, prehistoric cave paintings of Favignana Island (Sicily - Italy)
The Art of Prehistoric Malta, some key artifacts from recent excavations (Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol)
The Altamira Cave, a brief description
An Altamira Bison (one image)
Cueva de Micolon, Spain
Palaeolithic rock art in La Garma, Cantabria, Spain (Departamento de Ciencias Históricas, University of Cantabria)
Signs of Consciousness: Speculations on the Psychology of Paleolithic Graphics, an essay by J. A. Cheyne
Female Imagery from the Paleolithic (through the Institute for Ice Age Studies on line library)
Benjamin Britton and the Cave of Lascaux, with images
Struggling Artists of the Ice Age (article by Paul Pettitt in British Archaeology, no 6, July 1995)
Stonehenge
Virtual fieldtrip to Salisbury Plain, including Stonehenge (Dept. of Archaeology, University of Southampton)

IMAGES OF WOMEN IN ANCIENT ART
Chris Witcombe | Sweet Briar College