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  2. Venus figurine - Wikipedia

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    A female figurine which has "no practical use and is portable" and has the common elements of a Venus figurine (a strong accent or exaggeration of female sex-linked traits, and the lack of complete lower limbs) may be considered to be a Venus figurine, even if archaeological evidence suggests it was produced after the main Palaeolithic period.

  3. Venus Figurines from Valdivia - Wikipedia

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    In Valdivian indigenous shamanistic practices, small human figurines are transformed into holy objects that possess the power to cure disease. [5] It is possible that the Valdivian people may have created the figurines to "...serve a spiritual need, for a specific ritual or ceremonial event (most often assumed related to fertility), for a particular woman, or for the well-being of the home or ...

  4. Venus of Hohle Fels - Wikipedia

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    The Venus of Hohle Fels (also known as the Venus of Schelklingen; in German variously Venus vom Hohlen Fels, vom Hohle Fels; Venus von Schelklingen) is an Upper Paleolithic Venus figurine made of mammoth ivory that was unearthed in 2008 in Hohle Fels, a cave near Schelklingen, Germany, part of the Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura UNESCO World Heritage Site.

  5. Category:Venus figurines - Wikipedia

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    Venus Figurines from Valdivia; Venus figurines of Zaraysk; Venus of Langenzersdorf; Venus of Waldstetten; W. Venus of Willendorf This page was last edited on 31 ...

  6. Venus of Brassempouy - Wikipedia

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    The Venus of Brassempouy (French: la Dame de Brassempouy, [la dam də bʁasɛ̃pwi], meaning "Lady of Brassempouy", or Dame à la Capuche, "Lady with the Hood") is a fragmentary ivory figurine from the Upper Palaeolithic, apparently broken from a larger figure at some time unknown.

  7. Venus of Dolní Věstonice - Wikipedia

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    The Venus of Dolní Věstonice (Czech: Věstonická venuše) is a Venus figurine, a ceramic statuette of a nude female figure dated to 31,000–27,000 years ago (Gravettian industry). It was found at the Paleolithic site Dolní Věstonice in the Moravian basin south of Brno, in the base of Děvín Mountain in what is today the Czech Republic.

  8. Dolní Věstonice (archaeological site) - Wikipedia

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    These figurines have been interpreted to have been of some ceremonial significance to the ancient occupants of the site. In addition to these artifacts, two figurines depicting women were found. One of the figurines, known as the Black Venus, was found on a hillside amongst charred mammoth bones; the other depicted a woman with a deformed face.

  9. Vénus impudique - Wikipedia

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    The name given to Venus Impudique by the Marquis de Vibraye was significant in setting the precedent for the names of subsequent Upper Palaeolithic figures that have been found since. Subsequently, Upper Palaeolithic female figurines have collectively been named "Venus figurines" which derives from the Roman goddess of beauty, Venus.

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