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The Venus figurines of Mal’ta (also: Malta) are several palaeolithic figurines of women found in Siberia, Russia. They consist most often of ivory. Delporte writes of 29 figurines altogether.〔See Delporte (1979), p. 197.〕 They are about 20.000 years old and stem from the Gravettian.〔See Cohen (2003), p. 113.〕 Most of these statuettes show stylized clothes. Quite often the face is depicted. They were discovered at Mal'ta, at the Angara River, near Lake Baikal in Irkutsk Oblast, Siberia, Russia by the archeologists Zamiatmine, Sosnovskii and Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov.〔See. Delporte (1979), p. 193.〕 Some of these figurines are on display at the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. ==Discovery== Around 30 female statuettes of varying shapes were discovered at Mal'ta, at the Angara River, near Lake Baikal in Irkutsk Oblast in Siberia. The wide variety of forms, combined with the realism of the sculptures and the lack of repetitiveness in detail, are definite signs of developed, albeit early, art. Until the Mal’ta find, Venus figurines were previously found only in Europe. Carved from the tusk ivory of a mammoth, these images were typically highly stylized and often involved embellished and disproportionate characteristics (typically the breasts or buttocks). About 23,000 years old, they were carved from mammoth ivory and are displayed at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Venus figurines of Mal'ta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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