Venus figurines by Balzi Rossi

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Some of the Venus figurines by Balzi Rossi, Musée d'Archéologie Nationale (Salle Piette) in Saint-Germain-en-Laye

The Venus figurines by Balzi Rossi (also: Venus figurines from Grimaldi , Venus figurines from the Balzi Rossi caves ) from the caves near Grimaldi di Ventimiglia (Italy) are thirteen Stone Age representations of the female body. In addition, two representations of the human head come from the same context. The age of the figurines cannot be clearly determined due to the lack of a find context and is given as 24,000 to 19,000 years. The statuettes probably come from the Gravettia . They usually consist of steatite and are between 2.4 and 7.5 cm in size.

The figures were discovered by the antique dealer Louis Alexandre Jullien between 1883 and 1895. The site is the cave complex Balzi Rossi ("Red Rocks") on the Ligurian coast. Eight of the sculptures are currently in the Saint-Germain-en-Laye Museum near Paris.

The caves of the Balzi Rossi

See also

literature

  • Michael Bisson, Pierre Bolduc: Previously undescribed Figurines from the Grimaldi Caves , in: Current Anthropology 35.4 (1994) 458-468. ( online )
  • Claudine Cohen: La femme des origines. Images de la femme dans la préhistoire occidentale , Paris, Belin-Herscher, 2003.
  • Henri Delporte : L'image de la femme dans l'art préhistorique , Paris: Ed. Picard 1979.
  • Carlo Giraudi, Margherita Mussi : The Central and Southern Apennine (Italy) during OIS 3 and 2: the colonization of a changing environment , in: Préhistoire Européenne 15 (1999) 113–121.
  • Randall White, Michael Bisson Imagerie féminine du Paléolithique: l'apport des nouvelles statuettes de Grimaldi , in: Gallia préhistoire 40 (1998) 95–132.
  • Randall White: Une nouvelle statuette phallo-féminine paleolithique: 'La venus des Milandes' (commune de Castelnaud-la-Chapelle, Dordogne) , in: Paleo 14 (2002) 177-198.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See White & Bisson (1998), Imagerie féminine du Paléolithique: l'apport des nouvelles statuettes de Grimaldi based on the English summary by Don Hitchcock (Paleolithic female imagery: the contribution of the new Grimaldi figurines), http: // donsmaps. com / grimaldivenus.html