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. Four of them are made of ivory and one of them is made of serpentine. 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. 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.
List of artifacts
See also
Art of the Upper Paleolithic Gravettian Mikhail M. Gerasimov Venus figurines of Mal'ta
References
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'". Archived from the original on 29 September 2019. Retrieved 25 May 2016. 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 Archived 2021-02-01 at the Wayback Machine (including a reconstruction of clothing from a similar figurine)




