A NAKED WOMAN (VENUS) JOINED AT THE NECK AND FEET TO A MAN-ANIMAL HYBRID IN PALEOLITHIC SCULPTURE

Museum of the Origins of Man

A NAKED WOMAN (VENUS) JOINED AT THE NECK AND FEET TO A MAN-ANIMAL HYBRID IN PALEOLITHIC SCULPTURE

Fig. 6.5) In the drawing, a very small zooanthropomorphic stone sculpture depicting a woman (left side), with breasts and belly slightly prominent, joined at the neck and feet to an artistic man-animal hybrid, inferred from the head and by how much the mixed attributes are represented. The hybrid head measures less than 0.40 inch. It is not excluded that it is fake, as towards the end of the 19th century, when it was sold, there was a sizable market in fake artifacts.Size: 1.9 inches in height.
Origin: Balzi Rossi, Imperia, Italy.
Material culture: Upper Paleolithic.
Jullien Collection.

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