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Unless otherwise stated, this image is the copyright of the submitter. Contact them for permission to reproduce it. |  | | Description | Female figure sculpted from steatite. Found at Grimaldi, Italy, thought to be about 20,000 years old
Image credit: Musée d'archéologie nationale © Photo RMN/Jean-Gilles Berizzi
Can be seen as part of the exhibition - Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind, runnning to 26th May 2013 |
| Posted Comments: Oldhenwife
(2013-03-09) | What tools were used to sculpt this? | davidmorgan
(2013-03-10) | Steatite is a type of soft soapstone so very easy to carve with, say, flint or any stone which is fairly hard, or even bone/antler possibly. | TimPrevett
(2013-03-10) | Reminds me of a packet of maltesers left in the packet on the dashboard on a sunnyday!
| davidmorgan
(2013-03-10) | Mmmm, Malteser Venus sweeties. What a good idea! She does look good enough to eat. |
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