Venus figurines of Gagarino

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The Venus figurines of Gagarino are eight Palaeolithic Venus figurines made from ivory. The statuettes belong to the Gravettian industry and are about 21,000–20,000 years old. They were discovered near to the village of Gagarino in Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, and are now held in the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.See Delporte (1979), p. 175.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yglkwD7pKV8C&pg=PA34|title=The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors|date=11 December 2012|publisher=I.B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-78076-060-5|pages=34–5|author=Christoph Baumer|access-date=20 June 2017|archive-date=1 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240601072503/https://books.google.com/books?id=yglkwD7pKV8C&pg=PA34|url-status=live}}

File:Venus 1 from Gagarino RU.jpg|Another Venus figurine of Gagarino; height: 7.1 cm

File:Venus 2 from Gagarino RU.jpg|The "Venus No. 4" of Gagarino; height 12.7 cm

The Figurine No. 1 (by Abramova 1962) is sculpted similar to the Venus of Willendorf: The depicted female body is naked and obese, which is not necessarily interpreted as pregnant.Delporte, H. (1979). L’image de la femme dans l’art préhistorique, Paris: Ed. Picard, S. 175. The small arms are at the side with no hands. The face is not depicted, but a headgear or a hairstyle is indicated. The breasts are heavy. The mons veneris is indicated.