The Venus of Lespugue
A gifted artist sculpted this female image from mammoth ivory 26,000 years ago,
exaggerating the breasts on which both arms originally rested. Our cast is a
restored version of the original, which was damaged during excavation in France.
The artist lived during an explosively creative period in human evolution--between
50,000 and 25,000 years ago--when art and symbolic behavior proliferated.
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