Venus of Buret'

Venuses of Buret'
Material	Mammoth ivory[1][2] or serpentine[1]
Created	c. the end of the 21,000 B.C.E - beginning of the 20,000 B.C.E (Upper Paleolithic)[2][3]
Discovered	Village of Buret', Irkutsk Oblast[2] (52.968938°N 103.504646°E / 52.968938; 103.504646)

A drawing of Venus figurine 1.^[4]

Venus of Buret' may refer to any of the five Venus figurines found from archeological site of Buret' in Siberia near Irkutsk and the Angara river valley.^[5][6][1]

Four of them are made of ivory and one of them is made of serpentine.^[1] One of the figurines (pictured) made of ivory depicts a shrouded person. A similar shrouded figurine has been found from Mal'ta. Carvings on the figurine might represent decorated clothes. The figurine is partially sexually ambiguous due to lack of breasts, but it has an emphasized pubic triangle and vaginal area.^[5]

Venus figurines by Mal'ta-Buret' culture of the area are considered to be geographically isolated. They have features that differ from other Venuses of the Paleolithic era, as they have clothes, instead of being nude, and they also have elaborately carved faces.^[5]

List of artifacts

Name	Spot of discovery	Discovery	Dated	First publication	Material	Picture[7]	Note
Buret' 1	Dwelling no. 1	1936	21,190 BP	Alexey P. Okladnikov, 1941	Mammoth ivory		[3]
Buret' 2	Dwelling no. 4	1939	21,190 BP	Alexey P. Okladnikov, 1941	Mammoth ivory	[1]	[3]
Buret' 3	Dwelling no. 2	1940	21,190 BP	Alexey P. Okladnikov, 1941	Mammoth ivory		[3]
Buret' 4	Dwelling no. 2	1940	21,190 BP	Alexey P. Okladnikov, 1941	Mammoth ivory		[3]
Buret' 5	Dwelling no. 2	1940	21,190 BP	Alexey P. Okladnikov, 1941	Steatite[8]		[3]

See also

• Art of the Upper Paleolithic
• Gravettian
• Mikhail M. Gerasimov
• Venus figurines of Mal'ta

References

1. Väinö Poikalainen (2001). "Paleolithic Art from the Danube to Lake Baikal" (PDF). Folklore. 18&19: 7–60. doi:10.7592/FEJF2001.18/19.paleoart. ISSN 1406-0957. Archived (PDF) from the original on 7 September 2013. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
2. "The card of museum object". Virtual Museum of Archaeology. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
3. Louise Muriel Lander (2005). "From artifact to icon: an analysis of the Venus figurines in archaeological literature and contemporary culture" (PDF). Durham University. pp. 475–476. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
4. Photograph: "Anthropomphic figurine (Buret')". Art of Mal'ta. Novosibirsk State University. Archived from the original on 2023-04-08. Retrieved 2024-06-01.
5. Karen Diane Jennett (May 2008). "Female Figurines of the Upper Paleolithic" (PDF). Texas State University. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 February 2016. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
6. Christoph Baumer (11 December 2012). The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors. I.B.Tauris. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-78076-060-5.
7. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-07-01. Retrieved 2017-08-13.
8. Bednarik, Robert G. (2013). "Pleistocene Palaeoart of Asia". Arts. 2: 50, fig.C. doi:10.3390/arts2020046.

Further reading

• Leslie G. Freeman (1 January 1978). Views of the Past: Essays in Old World Prehistory and Paleanthropology. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 274–278. ISBN 978-3-11-080007-4.
• Gerasimov, Michail M. (1964). The Paleolithic site of Malta: excavations of 1956–1958. In E.N. Michael (ed.): The Archaeology and Geomorphology of Northern Asia. No. 5, S. 3–32, Arctic Institute of North America, University of Toronto.
• Gertcyk, Olga (18 February 2016). "World famous ancient Siberian Venus figurines 'are NOT Venuses after all'".
• Robert G. Bednarik (19 June 2013). "Pleistocene Palaeoart of Asia". Arts. 2 (2): 46–76. doi:10.3390/arts2020046. ISSN 2076-0752.
• "Siberian figurines reassessed". www.bradshawfoundation.com. 7 March 2016.

External links

• The Mal'ta - Buret' venuses and culture in Siberia
• The era of the great European cultures of the Northern - type hunters (including a reconstruction of clothing from a similar figurine)