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Venus of Hohle Fels
It is believed to be at least 35,000-40,000 years old). Known as the world's oldest known depiction of a woman and of any human being. Just over two inches long, carved from a woolly mammoth tusk. It was found in a cave in southwestern Germany. Article |
The Lion woman
32,000 years old, a 30cm-high lion-headed female ivory sculpture, carved out of ivory with a flint knife. It is the oldest human-animal sculpture known. It was found in in a cave in the Swabian Alb, Germany. http://ristorantemystica.wordpress.com/2008/10/ |
The Venus of Brassempouy
25,000 years old ivory figurine from the Upper Paleolithic discovered at Brassempouy, France. It is one of the earliest known realistic representations of a human face. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Brassempouy |
Venus of Willendorf
22,000 and 21,000 BCE statuette of a female figure found in Lower Austria near the city of Krems. It is carved from an oolitic limestone ( not local to the area) and tinted with red ochre. It is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. http://donsmaps.com/willendorf.html |