The Venus of Lespugue
Female Gravettian statuette (26,000 and 24,000 y/ο) Mammoth ivory, approx H 15 cm Grottes de Rideaux, Lespugue [ lɛspyɡ ], Haute-Garonne, France Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Humanity), Paris
Of all the steatopygous Venus figurines discovered from the Upper Paleolithic, the Venus of Lespugue, appears to display the most exaggerated female secondary sexual characteristics.
According to textile expert Elizabeth Wayland Barber, 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.
ecanthos' gif
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