Venus figurines by Avdejewo
The Venus figurines by Avdejewo (English transcription: Avdeevo ) are several Stone Age depictions of the female body. They are mostly made of ivory. The age of the figurines is given as 21,000 to 20,000 years. The statuettes thus come from the Gravettia . They are between 2.7 and 21.5 cm long.
The site near the village of Avdejewo is on the Seim , near the city of Kursk , (Russia). Avdejewo is about 200 km from the Kostjonki site . Very similar statuettes were found there. The rest of the fund inventory is also very similar.
See also
- Venus figurine
- Upper Paleolithic minor art
- Venus figurines by Kostjonki
- Venus figurines by Gagarino
- Figurines of Venus from Malta
literature
- H. Delporte: L'image de la femme dans l'art préhistorique . Paris 1979.
- Mariana Gvozdover: Art of the Mammoth Hunters: The finds from Avdeevo . 1995 = Oxbow Monograph 49.