Goddess of Capdenac

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Replica of the goddess of Capdenac (Museum Peche-Merle Cabrerets , Le center de préhistoire)

The goddess of Capdenac ( French La déesse de Capdenac , also La déesse de Capdenac-le-Haut ) is a sandstone sculpture from the Neolithic . The find was in the excavation of the rock shelters of Capdenac-le-Haut in the valley of the Lot in the Lot in the southern French region of Occitania made.

The excavations of the Abri revealed three phases of the middle Chasséen (around 3500 BC). A stone figure was unearthed, which is known as the oldest Neolithic stone sculpture in France . Its authenticity has been questioned, but a clear decision on the authenticity of the find cannot be made due to a lack of empirical evidence. There is no sculpture comparable to the goddess of Capdenac in the Chasséen.

The figure is 27 cm high, 17 cm wide and 25 cm deep. It is located in the Musée de Cahors Henri-Martin .

See also

literature

  • Jean Clottes, Michel Carrière: La statue féminine de Capdenac-le-Haut (Lot) . In: Congrès préhistorique de France XX e session, Martigues 1974. Paris, Société préhistorique française 1976, pp. 102-108.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karim Gernigon, Jean Clottes, Michel Carrière, Jean-Pierre Giraud: Capdenac-le-Haut (Lot): le Néolithique moyen quercinois stratifié. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française. Volume 104/1, 2007, p. 64, doi : 10.3406 / e.g. 2007.13648 .
  2. ^ Sculpture anthropomorphic - 1. In: Website of the museum association Musées Occitanie . Retrieved July 26, 2020 (French).

Coordinates: 44 ° 34 '46.6 "  N , 2 ° 4' 8.8"  E