Traces of the living.

February 7, 2020 April 4, 2021 Exhibition has ended

Bones, teeth and even horns are what remain of living beings. Their study allows us to retrace our history or to understand how vertebrates' bodies are structured. Used since prehistoric times for the shaping of tools and various objects, bones also carry a symbolic and spiritual charge that tells us about life while evoking its end. The exhibition therefore questions these traces of the past, which have always fascinated humans.

Prehistory

Venus from Lespugue

RF004005

€ 120

Hand patinated reproduction. Mold made from a print of the original work on display at the Musée de l'Homme.

This is the reproduction of a statuette of a woman in mammoth ivory discovered in 1922 by R. and S. de Saint-Périer in the Grotte des Rideaux, at Lespugue in the Haute-Garonne.
Measuring 147 mm, it was broken at the time of discovery.

It comes from an Upper Perigordian level, the age of which can be estimated at approximately 21000 B.C. This object is part of the collection belonging to the Musée de l'Homme.

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