A stunning 23,000 year old “Venus” with a “derriere like Kim Kardashian’s” has been unearthed in Russia, say scientists.
The “fantastically delicate” Paleolithic beauty was carved from woolly mammoth tusk.
The statuette features a whopping great rear which will look familiar to anyone who witnessed Kim “break the internet” by exposing her own prodigious posterior.
It was found in the Bryansk region of Russia.
Dr Konstantin Gavrilov, from the Stone Age department of Moscow’s Archeology Institute, led the expedition that discovered it.
He said: “This statuette pictures a rather portly woman, but it looks fantastically delicate, probably due to the long and thin legs.”
Others suggested a more modern lookalike for the two inch high ancient treasure and compared it to Kim Kardashian, reported The Siberian Times.
It appears to depict a “cult of fertility”, said Dr Gavrilov, but then indicated this was impossible since it predated the existence of agriculture.
The “Venus” is made from “mammoth tusk and it portrays a fat, maybe pregnant woman, with a big belly and bust,” he said.
Venus was the ancient Greek god of love and sex.
“Part of the bust and belly has peeled off, along a natural crack in the tusk,” Dr Gavrilov added.
But the rear view remains intact from 23,000 years ago.
“The figurine was found near large limestone layers and parts of mammoth bones that were painted with a mineral sienna paint.
“Most likely, the statuette was put next to the bones on the ground rather than ‘buried’ like other ‘Venuses'” found in Russia.”
Most experts believed such prehistoric statuettes are “ceremonial” and “ritual” objects, he said.
Other Venuses have been found in Russia, notably near Lake Baikal in Siberia, but on closer inspection some of these were, in fact, clothed.
The latest find was made among bones of mammoths, bison, and flint stones in a 23,000 year old layer at archaeological site Khotylyovo-2.
The “fantastically delicate” Paleolithic beauty was carved from woolly mammoth tusk.
The statuette features a whopping great rear which will look familiar to anyone who witnessed Kim “break the internet” by exposing her own prodigious posterior.
It was found in the Bryansk region of Russia.
Dr Konstantin Gavrilov, from the Stone Age department of Moscow’s Archeology Institute, led the expedition that discovered it.
He said: “This statuette pictures a rather portly woman, but it looks fantastically delicate, probably due to the long and thin legs.”
Others suggested a more modern lookalike for the two inch high ancient treasure and compared it to Kim Kardashian, reported The Siberian Times.
It appears to depict a “cult of fertility”, said Dr Gavrilov, but then indicated this was impossible since it predated the existence of agriculture.
The “Venus” is made from “mammoth tusk and it portrays a fat, maybe pregnant woman, with a big belly and bust,” he said.
Venus was the ancient Greek god of love and sex.
“Part of the bust and belly has peeled off, along a natural crack in the tusk,” Dr Gavrilov added.
But the rear view remains intact from 23,000 years ago.
“The figurine was found near large limestone layers and parts of mammoth bones that were painted with a mineral sienna paint.
“Most likely, the statuette was put next to the bones on the ground rather than ‘buried’ like other ‘Venuses'” found in Russia.”
Most experts believed such prehistoric statuettes are “ceremonial” and “ritual” objects, he said.
Other Venuses have been found in Russia, notably near Lake Baikal in Siberia, but on closer inspection some of these were, in fact, clothed.
The latest find was made among bones of mammoths, bison, and flint stones in a 23,000 year old layer at archaeological site Khotylyovo-2.
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Source: Siberian Times, The Sun
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