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3,000-Year-Old Goddess Figurine Still Bearing The Handprints Of Its Maker Found At The Bottom Of An Italian Lake
After reading about the goddess figurine, dive into the story of the Venus of Willendorf, the 30,000-year-old statue of a Paleolithic woman. Then, read about the Venus De Milo, the world’s most ...
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Tumaco-Tolita gold figurine: A 2,000-year-old statue with a 'fancy nose ornament' from a vanished South American culture
The gold figurine, which is roughly 9 inches (22.9 centimeters ... This gold figure may represent a woman, since it was more common to mark a sculpture with nipples for female statues than for male ...
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3,800-Year-Old Ritual Offerings Uncovered in Peru
The figurines were likely deposited as ritual offerings before the construction of a building. Archaeologists believe the female figures attest to the power women wielded as their city struggled ...