Lady of Villers-Carbonnel

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The lady of Villers-Carbonnel is a Terrakottafigurine from the Neolithic to consider when exploring the route of the Seine-Nord Europe Canal in Villers-Carbonnel on the left bank of the Somme in Péronne , in the east of the Somme department in Picardie in France discovered has been.

During the 2011 excavation, an area of ​​4.5 hectares was examined and the approximately 21 cm broken terracotta statuette was discovered in the remains of a destroyed furnace. The sculpture is an abstract representation of a female body, the buttocks and breasts are modeled. The arms are indicated by bulges. The head without a face is worked as a cone without details. The Lady of Villers-Carbonnel is assigned to the Neolithic culture of the Chasséen (4300-3600 BC). Female representations of this kind are very rare in France, but are often documented in the Mediterranean region from the Middle East to the border of Western Europe.

Archaeologists were able to prove two phases of an unusually extensive fortification in the district of Sole d'Happlincourt in Villers-Carbonnel and Bois de Briost in Saint-Christ-Briost . The older complex was formed by a palisade and covered an area of ​​an estimated 6 hectares. It was surrounded by a younger fortification made of a palisade, which was also accompanied by a moat. The area enclosed by it is estimated to be approximately 20 hectares and protected numerous, archaeologically proven structures , including buildings, trenches, ovens and post holes . Despite the discovery of numerous bones in one of the ovens, its interpretation as a cooking place is uncertain. The ceramic inventory contained numerous vessels with necks, bottles, baking plates and incised vessels.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 6.2 "  N , 2 ° 54 ′ 56.5"  E