Venus figurines from Monruz

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Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '13.2 "  N , 6 ° 57' 39.8"  E ; CH1903:  five hundred and sixty-three thousand six hundred eighty  /  205957

Venus figurines from Monruz
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Venus of Monruz

Venus of Monruz

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Venus figurines from Monruz (Switzerland)
Venus figurines from Monruz
When 16,500–15,200 years ago
Where City of Neuchâtel , Monruz district, Switzerland

The Venus figurines of Monruz (also Venus figurines of Neuchâtel, Venus figurines of Neuchâtel-Monruz) are three Stone Age female statuettes that were found in the early 1990s during excavations at the Monruz open-air station on the north bank of Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland . With an age of 16,500-15,200 years they are assigned to the Magdalenian .

description

One of the figures has been preserved completely and undamaged, a second could be reconstructed from two fragments. A large part of the third is missing above the gluteus , it has broken off in the lower third of the loop. The sculptures are made of gagat , the largest is 16.5 mm long, 5.2 mm wide and 7.8 mm deep. The figurines may have been worn as amulets and are so similar to the Venus figurines from Petersfels that there is speculation about whether the same artist designed these works of art. The two sites Monruz (Switzerland) and the Petersfels near Engen ( Germany ) are approx. 170 km apart as the crow flies .

material length width depth Eyelet diameter Reference number
Venus of
Monruz 1 		jet 16.5 mm 5.2 mm 7.2 mm N / A N50-29
Venus of
Monruz 2 		jet 13.7 mm 3.9 mm 6.8 mm 1.8-2.3 mm (oval) T48-94 and X49-217
Venus of
Monruz 3 		jet 12.5 mm 5.2 mm 7.5 mm 1.4 mm R54-499

See also

literature

  • Albrecht, Gerd (2009). Reduced silhouettes: depictions of women from Petersfels. In: Archäologisches Landesmuseum Konstanz (Ed.) (2009). Ice Age: Art and Culture. Ostfildern: Thorbecke. ISBN 978-3-7995-0833-9 . Pp. 307-311.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Denise Leesch, Werner Müller: New radiocarbon dates on bones, teeth and antlers from Magdalenian sites in Switzerland and their significance for the position of the Magdalenian within the late glacial . Archéologie neuchâteloise, Hauterive 2012, p. 297-300 .
  2. ^ A b Jérôme Bullinger, Denise Leesch, Nicole Plumettaz: Le site magdalénien de Monruz, 1 - Premiers éléments pour l'analyse d'un habitat de plein air. Archéologie neuchâteloise, Hauterive 2006, p. 158-165 .
  3. ↑ Albrecht (2009), p. 307.

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