Venus figurines of Balzi Rossi
Venus figurines of Balzi Rossi | |
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Material | Soapstone |
Height | Between 2.4 and 7.5 cm |
Created | 24,000 to 19,000 years |
Discovered | c. 1889 Ventimiglia, Liguria, Italy |
Discovered by | Louis Jullien |
The Venus figurines of Balzi Rossi (also: Venus figurines of Grimaldi, Venus figurines from the Balzi-Rossi-Caves) from the caves near Grimaldi di
steatite and are between 2.4 and 7.5 cm in height.[1]
Between 1883 and 1895, the figurines were discovered by the antique dealer Louis Alexandre Jullien at the cave complex Balzi Rossi ("red cliffs") at the Ligurian coast. Eight of these sculptures are housed in the museum Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris.
See also
- Venus figurines
- Grimaldi man
References
- ^ Vgl. White & Bisson (1998), Imagerie féminine du Paléolithique: l'apport des nouvelles statuettes de Grimaldi according to the English translation by Don Hitchcock (Paleolithic female imagery: the contribution of the new Grimaldi figurines), http://donsmaps.com/grimaldivenus.html
Literature
- Bisson, M.; Bolduc P. (1994). Previously undescribed Figurines from the Grimaldi Caves, Current Anthropology, 35 (4), S. 458–468.[1]
- Clark, P. et al. (2009). "The Last Glacial Maximum", American Association for the Advancement of Science, 7 August 2009, 325 (5941), S. 710 – 714.
- Cohen, C. (2003). La femme des origines. Images de la femme dans la préhistoire occidentale, Paris, Belin-Herscher, 2003, 191 pages.
- Delporte, H. (1979). L’image de la femme dans l’art préhistorique, Paris: Ed. Picard.
- C. Giraudi, Margherita Mussi (1999). The Central and Southern Apennine (Italy) during OIS 3 and 2: the colonisation of a changing environment, ERAUL, 90, S. 118 – 129.
- Mussi, M. (2002). Earliest Italy: an overview of the Italian Pateolithic and Mesolithic New York: Kluwer Academic, 2002.
- White, R., Bisson, M. (1998). Imagerie féminine du Paléolithique : l'apport des nouvelles statuettes de Grimaldi, Gallia préhistoire. Tome 40, 1998. S. 95–132.
- White, R. , 2002: Une nouvelle statuette phallo-féminine paléolithique: 'La venus des Milandes' (commune de Castelnaud-la-Chapelle, Dordogne), Paleo N° 14 Décembre 2002, S. 177 – 198.