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The Gravettian was an archaeological industry of the European Upper Paleolithic that succeeded the Aurignacian circa 33,000 years BP. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] It is archaeologically the last European culture many consider unified, [ 5 ] and had mostly disappeared by c. 22,000 BP, close to the Last Glacial Maximum , although some elements lasted until c ...
Venus of Dolní Věstonice (31,000–27,000 BP, Gravettian industry) The Dolní Věstonice artifacts also include some of the earliest examples of fired clay sculptures, including the Venus of Dolní Věstonice, and date back to 26,000 BP. The female figurine is a ceramic statuette depiction of a wide-hipped, nude female.
Gravettian finds originate in layer VII. In addition to 52 tools made of animal bones, reindeer antler and mammoth ivory, more than 1000 stone tools were unearthed, including blades, gouges and scrapers. More than 80 artifacts were identified as jewelry, including numerous ivory beads, beaded bones, perforated animal teeth and notched bone rods ...
The Solutrean / s ə ˈ lj uː t r i ə n / industry is a relatively advanced flint tool-making style of the Upper Paleolithic of the Final Gravettian, from around 22,000 to 17,000 BP. Solutrean sites have been found in modern-day France, Spain and Portugal.
Most date from the Gravettian period (26,000–21,000 years ago). [1] However, findings are not limited to this period; for example, the Venus of Hohle Fels dates back at least 35,000 years to the Aurignacian era, and the Venus of Monruz dates back about 11,000 years to the Magdalenian.
A Late Aurignacian phase transitional with the Gravettian dates to about 33,000 to 26,000 years ago. [ 6 ] [ 5 ] The type site is the Cave of Aurignac , Haute-Garonne , south-west France . The main preceding period is the Mousterian of the Neanderthals .
They are about 23,000 years old and stem from the Gravettian. [2] [4] Most of these statuettes show stylized clothes. Quite often the face is depicted. They were discovered at Mal'ta, at the Angara River, near Lake Baikal in Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia by the archeologists Sergey Zamyatnin, Georgy Sosnovsky, and Mikhail Gerasimov. [5]
2. Late Upper Palaeolithic strata of brown and yellowish clay mixed with fine debris, that held flakes and chipped flint artifacts attributed to the Epigravettian culture, implements with abruptly retouched edges point to a deposition of Gravettian or Epigravettian cultural settlement. 3.