Mesolithic figurine of Venus from Gaban rock shelter (Trento, Italy)

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Stylistically different from the Neolithic figurine of Gaban, this comes from the Mesolithic layer: it is a female statuette carved in bas-relief on a red deer horn support, with very realistic anatomical details, depicted in an upright position with arms extended along the wide sides; she has a prominent belly, almost covering the pubic triangle, and two sagging breasts, the legs are divided by a longitudinal furrow and the feet are just sketchy; her face is without features, with a non-finished technique on the stylistic model of the "venuses" of the Upper Paleolithic of much of Europe. It was found in 1974 during the excavations directed by Bernardo Bagolini at the base of the late Castelnovian stratum (Mesolithic cultural facies which takes its name from the French center of Chateauneuf-les-Martigues, near Marseilles).