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Venus of Lespugue






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Venus of Lespugue
Venus of Lespugue, Musée de l'Homme, Paris
Created26,000-24,000 BP
DiscoveredLespugue (Haute-Garonne), France
Lespugue is located in France
Lespugue

Lespugue

The Venus of Lespugue is a Venus figurine, a statuette of a female figure of the Gravettian, dated to between 26,000 and 24,000 years ago.

Discovery

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It was discovered in 1922 in the Rideaux caveofLespugue (Haute-Garonne) in the foothills of the Pyrenees by René de Saint-Périer (1877-1950).

Approximately 6 inches (150 mm) tall, it is carved from tusk ivory, and was damaged during excavation.

Features

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Of all the steatopygous Venus figurines discovered from the upper Paleolithic, the Venus of Lespugue, if the reconstruction is sound, appears to display the most exaggerated female secondary sexual characteristics, especially the extremely large, pendulous breasts.

According to textile expert Elizabeth Wayland Barber,[1] the statue displays the earliest representation found of spun thread, as the carving shows a skirt hanging from below the hips, made of twisted fibers, frayed at the end.

Location

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The Venus of Lespugue resides in France, at the Musée de l'Homme.

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Elizabeth Wayland Barber, (1994) Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times, W. W. Norton and Company, pg. 44, ASIN 0393035060.
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