Phallic body shape, carved sedimentation rock, Neolithic Venus, Balkans, 7000 BC-3000 BC

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Phallic body shape, carved sedimentation rock, Neolithic Venus, Balkans, 7000 BC-3000 BC A rare Neolithic Venus in the shape of phallus, with prominent vulva in between rudimental legs. The statue has rudimental arms and small breasts. This is interesting concept of procreation-focused amalgam of maleness and femaleness. This type is relatively rare, but archeologists used to find it in Balkans (Neolithic Vinca culture), Göbekli Tepe, etc. Origin: Found in Balkans, Southern Europe. Height: 60 mm; Width at the bottom: 34 mm; Weight: 47.67 g; Mohs’ hardness: 4.5-5.0; sedimentation rock with microfossils. Provenance from the collection of Italian collector P. Pazzi. REFERENCE: The European Neolithic is the period from the arrival of Neolithic (New Stone Age) technology and the associated population of Early European Farmers in Europe, c. 7000 BC (the approximate time of the first farming societies in Greece) until c. 2000–1700 BC (the beginning of Bronze Age Europe with the Nordic Bronze Age). The Neolithic overlaps the Mesolithic and Bronze Age periods in Europe as cultural changes moved from the southeast to northwest at about 1 km/year – this is called the Neolithic Expansion.[1] The duration of the Neolithic varies from place to place, its end marked by the introduction of bronze tools: in southeast Europe it is approximately 4,000 years (i.e. 7000 BC–3000 BC) while in parts of Northwest Europe it is just under 3,000 years (c. 4500 BC–1700 BC). In parts of Europe, notably the Balkans, the period after c. 5000 BC is known as the Chalcolithic (Copper Age) due to the invention of copper smelting and the prevalence of copper tools, weapons and other artifacts.

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