on Mar 16, 2016
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| Material | Basalt pebble | | Material | Quartzite | | Material | Mammoth ivory | | Material | Mammoth bone | | Material | Steatite stone | | Material | Ceramic clay and bone ash | | Material | Oolitic limestone | | Material | Serpentine stone | | Material | Limestone | | Material | Mammoth Ivory | | Material | Volcanic rock | | Material | Jet, a type of semi-precious lignite | | Material | Black Jet | They were carved by Stone Age sculptors in all manner of different materials, ranging from soft stone (steatite, calcite or limestone), bone, ivory, wood, or ceramic clays
Hundreds of such figurines are known, nearly all between 2 and 8 inches in height
Considered by late 19th century archeologists to represent the prehistoric idea of feminine beauty, they were dubbed "venuses" in reference to the Roman goddess of beauty
The 4.5 inch Venus of Dolni Vestonice was discovered in 1925 in a layer of ash, at a Paleolithic settlement site in the Moravian basin, near Brno
Discovered in a freshly ploughed field close to the village of Moravany nad Váhom in Slovakia, in 1938, this figurine is carved from mammoth bone and is 7.6 centimetres in height
Some 10 centimetres in height, this figurine exhibits the usual exaggerated breasts and belly
It is a limestone bas-relief, approximately 43 centimetres in height, of a female nude
Magdalenian pendant (1-inch tall), of a stylized human figure
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