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Burial clothing of the Egtved Girl, c. 1370 BC Prehistoric Woman by James Tissot (1895) A large amount of research on prehistory has been dedicated to the role of women in prehistoric society. Tasks typically undertaken by women are thought to have formed a major sexual division of labor in relation to child-rearing , gathering, and other ...
Venus of Hohle Fels, the earliest known Venus figurine. The Vénus impudique, which was the figurine that gave the whole category its name, was the first Palaeolithic sculptural representation of a woman to be discovered in modern times.
The Achavanich Beaker Burial refers to the remains of a prehistoric woman who lived around 4,000 years ago in the area of present day Achavanich, Caithness, Scotland. Ava, as she is now known, was discovered in 1987 by William and Graham Ganson and excavated by regional archaeologist Robert Gourlay, from the Highland Regional Council , and two ...
Sometime during the fourth century, a woman died and was buried in what is now known as northern France. Now, more than 1,600 years after her burial, the woman’s grave has been unearthed ...
Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 ; 50 years ago (1974-11-24) Discovered by Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 ...
The Venus figurines – sculptures of pregnant women with exaggerated breasts and thighs – were used as evidence of the presence of the "Negroid race" in Palaeolithic Europe, because they were interpreted as having been based on real women with steatopygia (a condition which causes thicker thighs, common in the women of the San people of ...
A reconstruction by Libor Balák, depicting the reconstruction of the Venus (or Lady) of Brassempouy, from the Western Brassempouy. Although this may be inaccurate due to Europeans having darker skin 23-29,000 years ago [4] Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology in Brno, The Center for Paleolithic and Paleoethnological research.
Magdalenian Girl" or "Magdalenian Woman" (French: Femme magdalénienne) [2] [3] is the common name for a human skeleton, dated to the boundary between the Upper Paleolithic and the early Mesolithic, ca. 15,000 to 13,000 years old, in the Magdalenian period.