The Venus figurines of (also: Venus figurines of , Venus figurines from the ) are thirteen Palaeolithic sculptures of the female body, from the caves near , Italy. Additionally, two small depictions of the human head were discovered at the same place. The age of these figurines cannot be determined because of missing archaeological context data. It is usually accepted that these figurines stem from the Gravettian, about old. Most of the sculptures consist of soapstone and are between in height.Vgl. White & Bisson (1998), Imagerie féminine du Paléolithique: l'apport des nouvelles statuettes de Grimaldi according to the English translation by Don Hitchcock (Paleolithic female imagery: the contribution of the new Grimaldi figurines), http://donsmaps.com/grimaldivenus.html

Between 1883 and 1895, the figurines were discovered by the antique dealer at the cave complex () at the coast. Eight of these sculptures are housed in the museum near Paris.

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Further reading Bisson, M.; Bolduc P. (1994). Previously undescribed Figurines from the Grimaldi Caves, Current Anthropology, 35 (4), S. 458–468. Clark, P. et al. (2009). "The Last Glacial Maximum", American Association for the Advancement of Science, 7 August 2009, 325 (5941), S. 710 – 714. Cohen, C. (2003). La femme des origines. Images de la femme dans la préhistoire occidentale, Paris, Belin-Herscher, 2003, 191 pages. Delporte, H. (1979). L’image de la femme dans l’art préhistorique, Paris: Ed. Picard. C. Giraudi, Margherita Mussi (1999). The Central and Southern Apennine (Italy) during OIS 3 and 2: the colonisation of a changing environment, ERAUL, 90, S. 118 – 129. Mussi, M. (2002). Earliest Italy: an overview of the Italian Pateolithic and Mesolithic New York: Kluwer Academic, 2002. White, R., Bisson, M. (1998). Imagerie féminine du Paléolithique : l'apport des nouvelles statuettes de Grimaldi, Gallia préhistoire. Tome 40, 1998. S. 95–132. White, R., 2002: Une nouvelle statuette phallo-féminine paléolithique: 'La venus des Milandes' (commune de Castelnaud-la-Chapelle, Dordogne), Paleo N° 14 Décembre 2002, S. 177 – 198.

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