The Incompleteness and Segmentation of Female Bodies in the Paleolithic Imagination: the Gravettian Sculptures of Kostenki 1-I (Russian Plain 22 000-23 000 BP)
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20 juin 2023
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Delphine Dupuy, « The Incompleteness and Segmentation of Female Bodies in the Paleolithic Imagination: the Gravettian Sculptures of Kostenki 1-I (Russian Plain 22 000-23 000 BP) », Palethnologie, ID : 10.4000/palethnologie.4968
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Two of the main Gravettian complexes (between 25 000 and 22 000 BP), in well documented archaeological contexts, Dolní Věstonice / Pavlov in Central Europe (Czech Republic) and Kostenki / Avdeevo in Eastern Europe (Russia), contain some complete representations of the female body, but mostly incomplete bodies and portions of bodies. Their high proportion has led numerous European researchers to propose the hypothesis that these pieces were intentionally broken. The statuettes would thus have ...