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ARTICLES Why don’t you take a break and read these insightful articles ! September 30, 2002 Venus of Lespugue or Venus of Lespugne (Part 1 of 2) Spelling might cause some problem if you’re not a native. As soon as I see the above figurine, I can recognize this particular “Venus” at once without any problem because I have seen it so many times. When I jot down its name, however, I have to think it over. Is it venus of Lespugue or Lespugne? I’ve looked it up in several files. In some files, it is spelled as “Lespugne”; in others, “Lespugue”. My own choice? I have written it as Venus of Lespugne. Since this venus was found at the foot of the Pyrénées in France. Lespugne sounds more French than Lespugue, because I remember that “Montagne” is a place name or district name for some part of France. Besides, a famous sparkling French wine is spelled “champagne”. So, naturally, I’ve chosen Lespugne. September 30, 2002 Venus of Lespugue or Venus of Lespugne (Part 2 of 2) Lespugne and Lespugue? There might exist a place called Lespugne and another, Lespugue. So, using the Google image search, I entered the word: Lespugne. The result is as follows: As you see, there are eight places called “Lespugne”. I clicked the one at the extreme right. . . . September 27, 2002 The Neolithic Venuses In the early 1960s the British archaeologist James Mellaart excavated part of the village of Catal Huyuk (inhabited between 6250-5400 BC) and neighboring Hacilar (5700-5000 BC) in Anatolia. In Mellaart’s view both sites revealed unequivocal evidence of the female principle in religion and society. September 26, 2002 Sticking-out Buttocks If you take a look at the venus of Monpazier, you might think that the figurine has extremely exaggerated abdomen and buttocks. But, in those remote days, women appeared fat with a sticking-out bottom and a slightly protruding abdomen as you find in the Paleolithic venuses. Even today, in some parts of Africa, you might be able to meet some women with the shape of the Monpazier venus as shown at left. August 15, 2002 The Paleolithic Venuses (Part 1 of 2) Who are they?     What are they? More than sixty of these Paleolithic venuses have been found. Most of them showed up in eastern Central Europe but a few in France and a few in the Ukraine and Siberia. Made more than twenty thousand years ago from mammoth ivory, soft stone, or clay mixed with ash and then baked, they are usually small—no more than four or five inches high—and, with two exceptions which are in any case incomplete, there is no attempt to portray the face. August 15, 2002 The Paleolithic Venuses (Part 2 of 2) Why Faceless ?? Facelessness does not rule out portraiture. Realism was an essential element of the cave paintings. And some archaeologists believe that those cave paintings were designed to exert magical control over the animals painted so that the hunters could kill them with ease. Therefore, it is not difficult to apply the same principle to those figurines. If the Paleolithic artists had depicted the facial features of the image, this act might have brought some danger to the sitter. So they might have intentionally left the facial features blank to avoid the disaster.

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