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Venus of Lespugue
These venus figurines are typical of the Gravettian culture
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Upper Paleolithic.
Pleistocene
Paleolithic
:Lower Paleolithic
:Middle Paleolithic
:Upper Paleolithic
::Châtelperronian culture
::Aurignacian culture
::Gravettian culture
::Solutrean culture
::Magdalenian culture
Holocene
Mesolithic or Epipaleolithic
:Kebaran culture
:Natufian culture
Neolithic
:Halafian culture
:Hassuna culture
:Ubaid culture
:Uruk culture
Chalcolithic
The Gravettian was an industry of the European Upper Palaeolithic. It is named after the type site of La Gravette in the Dordogne region of France. It dates from between 28,000 and 22,000 years ago and succeeded the Aurignacian.

The diagnostic artifact from the industry is a small pointed blade with a blunt but straight back, known as a Gravette Point. Artistic achievements included the Venus figurines. The industry had counterparts across central Europe and into Russia.

Gravettian culture

A phase (c.28,000–23,000 ya) of the European Upper Paleolithic that is characterized by a stone-tool industry with small pointed blades used for big-game hunting (bison, horse, reindeer and mammoth). It is divided into two regional groups: the western Gravettian, mostly known from cave sites in France, and the eastern Gravettian, with open sites of specialized mammoth hunters on the plains of central Europe and Russia. Some early examples of cave art and the famous 'Venus' figurines were made by Gravettian artists.

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Dordogne

Coat of arms of the Dordogne department
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Administration
Department number: 24
Region: Aquitaine
Prefecture: Périgueux
Subprefectures: Bergerac
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Motto
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
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Aurignacian is the name of a culture of the Upper Palaeolithic located in Europe and southwest Asia. It dates to between 32,000 and 21,000 BC. The name originates from the type site of Aurignac in the Haute Garonne area of France.
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In archaeology, an artifact or artefact is any object made or modified by a human culture, and often one later recovered by some archaeological endeavor. Examples include stone tools such as projectile points, pottery vessels, metal objects such as buttons or guns, and items
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In archaeology a blade is a type of stone tool created by striking a long narrow flake from a stone core.

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Venus figurines is an umbrella term for a number of prehistoric items in statuette form, of women (whether obese or pregnant is disputed) from the Aurignacian or Gravettian period of the upper Palaeolithic, found from Spain to Siberia.
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