Woman from Brassempouy
Date ca. 22,000 BCE
Movement Prehistoric, Upper Paleolithic, Gravettian
Medium Ivory
Dimensions height 1.5”
Provenance Grotte du Pape, Brassempuoy, France
Housed at Musée des Antiquités Nationales, Saint Germain-en-Laye
Female figurines help to suggest a matrilineal culture amongst these prehistoric peoples, especially given the fact that more depictions of women have been found, to-date, than those of men; however, their uses are still unclear.