Venus figurines by Kostjonki

Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 45.5 "  N , 39 ° 2 ′ 28.8"  E

Venus figurines by Kostjonki
Venus No. 4. from Kostjonki (Kostenki)
When	about 25,000 years ago
Where	Kostyonki , Voronezh Oblast , Russia

In the Venus figurines of Kostjonki (also: Kostenki or Kostjenki , Russian Костёнки Kostjonki ) is a larger number of Stone Age representations of the female body. They are mostly made of ivory. The age of the figurines is given as 25,000 to 20,000 years. The statuettes thus come from the Gravettia .

Location

The village of Kostjonki is located in the Khokholsky district of the Russian Oblast Voronezh- on- Don , about 200 km from the site of Avdeevo ( Avdejewo ), where very similar statuettes were found; the rest of the fund inventory is also very similar.

See also

• Venus figurines
• Venus figurines by Avdejewo
• Figurines of Venus from Malta
• Venus figurines by Gagarino
• Upper Paleolithic minor art

literature

• Zoya A. Abramova. (1962). Paleolitičeskoe iskusstvo na territorii SSSR. Moskva: Akad. Nauk SSSR, Inst. Archeologii.
• Zoya A. Abramova. (1995). L'Art paléolithique d'Europe orientale et de Sibérie. Grenoble: Jérôme Millon.
• Claudine Cohen. (2003). La femme des origines. Images of the femme in the prehistoire occidentale. Paris, Belin-Herscher.
• Henry Delporte. (1979). L'image de la femme in l'art préhistorique. Paris: Ed. Picard.
• Michael Merkel, Lisa E. Hansen, Bent Jensen. (2016). Ice ages - the art of mammoth hunters, exhibition catalog. Hamburg. ISBN 978-3-931429-31-7

Web links

• http://donsmaps.com/kostenkivenus.html

Remarks

1. ↑ The Russian Wikipedia has an article about the Костёнковский комплекс стоянок (Kostjonki Archaeological Complex)

Picture gallery

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  Venus figurine from Kostjonki, limestone, gravettia

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  Venus figurine from Kostjonki, mammoth ivory, height: 15.3 cm, gravettia approx. 25,000

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  Venus figurine from Kostjonki, mammoth ivory: blank or fragment

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  Venus figurine from Kostjonki, mammoth ivory, height: 8.8 cm, gravettia approx. 25,000

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  Venus figurine No. 1 from Kostjonki, mammoth ivory, gravettia approx. 25,000 BP

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  Perforated rod made of Kostjonki, mammoth ivory, approx. 25,000 BP