Venus Of Monruz And Neuchatel

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On the archeology the term of Venus is a description of a Stone Age statue of women. Many Venuses were found through Europe, France to Siberia. These sculptures had a similarity in size and shape most of them on an obese or pregnant. They were carved on all different materials. The Venus of Monruz/Neuchatel was one of the last and smallest Venus figurines to be carved during the Paleolithic Era. The Monruz pendant was discovered on July 1990,during a construction at Monruz(La coudre) along with remains of stone tools, animal bones and hearths The Venus of the Monruz is a 16 mm in height figurine. The Venus is a pendant carved out of black jet which it’s basically a hard variety of coal, but easily to carve the Venus was carved in shape

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