Venus of Brassempouy

Venus de Brassempouy
Venus de Brassempouy
Type	Figurine
Material	Ivory
Created	~25,000 years ago
Discovered	1894, Brassempouy, France
	Brassempouy

The Venus of Brassempouy (French: la Dame de Brassempouy, [la dam də bʁasɛ̃pwi], meaning "Lady of Brassempouy", or Dame à la Capuche, "Lady with the Hood") is a fragmentary ivory figurine from the Upper Palaeolithic, apparently broken from a larger figure at some time unknown. It was discovered in a cave at Brassempouy, France in 1894.^[1] About 25,000 years old, it is one of the earliest known realistic representations of a human face.

^ Randall White (December 2006). "The Women of Brassempouy: A Century of Research and Interpretation" (PDF). Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 13 (4): 251–304. doi:10.1007/s10816-006-9023-z. S2CID 161276973. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-22. Retrieved 2021-08-15.

[1] Randall White (December 2006). "The Women of Brassempouy: A Century of Research and Interpretation" (PDF). Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 13 (4): 251–304. doi:10.1007/s10816-006-9023-z. S2CID 161276973. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-22. Retrieved 2021-08-15.

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