VENUS OF Kostenki - Borshevo, RUSSIA; 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. This figurine represents the classic Paleolithic 'Venus', with overlarge breasts and belly. the arms are pressed to the body with hands on the belly. Relief work in the form of a tight plait convey a breast ornament tied up at the back. There are bracelets on the arms. The original has had the head broken off, and was not present during the scan of this venus. 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.