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A DOUBLE ANTHROPOMORPHIC SMALL SCULPTURE OF UPPER PALEOLITHIC

Pietro Gaietto








Fig.1 Small sculpture from Gagarino, Ukraina
14,8 cm height


This small ivory of mammoth sculpture (Fig.1) ( extinct hairy Elephant ) 14,8 cm height ( 5,2 cm the female figurine; 9,6 cm the man), found in a Paleolithic site (evolved Gravettian, about 21,800 years ago) at Gagarino, Ukraine, is a very rare example of two human beings joined together by the neck, with the whole body.

Palaeolithic lithic tools are part of material culture, while the sculpture, as art, in every time, even today, is part of the spiritual culture.

Every palaeolithic sculpture, and also this, has been produced for cult rituals and, related to today, it is a work of religious type.

This sculpture from Gagarino represents a pregnant woman (she has the belly of the pregnant woman. She has not feet, like all the Paleolithic Venuses), generally said "Venuses", and, joined by the nape, the figure of a man of greater dimension, but less accurate in the working.

The union of the two heads is sure connected to the bicephaly of the previous ages, which then continues until the historical and actual ages in equatorial Africa.



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