VENUS #4, KOSTENKI I, ancient PALEOLITHIC FEMALE FIGURINE

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Kostenki is a very important Paleolithic site (20,000 to 30,000 BCE) on the Don River in Russia. It was a settlement which contained venus figures, dwellings made of mammoth bones, and many flint tools and bone implements. Kostenki / Kostienki is not actually a single site but really an area on the right bank of the Don River in the regions of the villages of Kostenki and Borshevo, consisting of more than twenty site locations, all dating to the Paleolithic. Venus figure #4 , Kostenki I site, 25 000 BP. This mammoth ivory statuette was found in 1923, and was the first ice age woman figure found in Russia. Above her breasts she is decorated with a ribbon. This is shown with three parallel scribed lines and additionally provided with oblique scribed lines. The ornament continues on the back of the figure. Curated at the Hermitage Museum at St Petersburg, Russia. . This STL was made from a high resolution scan of the original cast of this ancient figurine, while it was being exhibited in the Czech Republic in the 1980's. I spent two years tracking down these casts and making these scans using the latest high resolution (<25 microns) scanner and this is the most accurate and VIRTUALLY ONLY museum quality exact recreation of the original Venus figurine you can find.