Sculptures of the Ice Age Exploring the Deeper History of Art Bradshaw Foundation
Sculptures of the Ice Age Exploring the Deeper History of Art Bradshaw Foundation
Sculptures of the Ice Age Exploring the Deeper History of Art Bradshaw Foundation
Sculptures of the Ice Age
Sculptures of the Ice Age - Exploring the Deeper History of Art
Avdeevo: Female Figurine 2
Solutrean 21,000 - 20,000 years old

Avdeevo Female Figurine 2 Sculptures of the Ice Age
One of ten ivory figurines found at Avdeevo, this figure has a faceless, inclined head above a slim body. Her well drawn arms curve round under slightly prominent stomach suggesting the early stages of pregnancy. The figure may have lost some fragments of ivory in the area of the breasts which are otherwise slight.

Avdeevo open site near Kursk, Russia.

Moscow.

Dimensions

 
Height : 3.6 cm
 
Width : 12.5 cm
 
Thick : 3.2 cm
 

Solutrean

Culture which succeeded the Gravettian about 22,000 years ago and lasted until 17,000 years ago in some areas. Identified at the Solutré site in east-central France near Mâcon, and found mostly in France and Spain, the Solutrean is famous for its exquisite flint-knapping.

Source: Dr Jean Clottes

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