Venus of Lespugue (replica), from the Musée de l'Homme, Paris

The Venus of Lespugue is a Venus figurine, a statuette of a nude female figure of the Gravettian, dated to between 26,000 and 24,000 years ago. It was discovered in 1922 in the Rideaux cave of Lespugue (Haute-Garonne) in the foothills of the Pyrenees by René de Saint-Périer (1877-1950).

Approximately 6 inches (150 mm) tall, it is carved from tusk ivory, and was damaged during excavation.

According to textile expert Elizabeth Wayland Barber,^[1] 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.

The Venus of Lespugue resides in France, at the Musée de l'Homme.

Notes

1. ↑ Elizabeth Wayland Barber, (1994) Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times, W. W. Norton and Company, pg. 44, ISBN 0393-03506-0.

External links

• http://www.hominids.com/donsmaps/lespuguevenus.html
• http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen/lespugue.html

de:Venus von Lespugue es:Venus de Lespugue fr:Vénus de Lespugue gl:Venus de Lespugue it:Venere di Lespugue hu:Lespugue-i vénusz nl:Venus van Lespugue pt:Vênus de Lespugue tr:Lespugue Venüsü

---

Source: Wikipedia | The above article is available under the GNU FDL. | Edit this article