The figurine was carved from mammoth ivory and fit together to form an artifact measuring 23 mm by 22 mm by 13 mm in size.
Other figurines found at this location date to 40,000 years ago and are therefore the oldest known depictions of humans.
In Archaeol[ogy] applied to the rude products of aboriginal workmanship as distinguished from natural remains.” Again, some key words and phrases are important: “anything made by human art,” and “rude products.” Clearly, an artifact is any object created by humankind regardless of the "skill" of its creator or the absence of "beauty."Artifact, then, is anything created by humankind, and art is a particular kind of artifact, a group of objects under the broad umbrella of artifact, in which beauty has been achieved through the application of skills.
Think of the average plastic spoon: a uniform white color, mass produced, and unremarkable in just about every way.
The figurine appears to be similar to the well-known ‘Venus of Hohle Fels’, discovered by Professor Conard in 2009.
Although it is more modest in its imagery it appears to have been taller.
In contrast, the same Oxford English Dictionary defines the word "artifact" as, “anything made by human art and workmanship; an artificial product.
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Two fragments of a prehistoric female figurine have been discovered in a cave at Hohle Fels in Germany.
Hohle Fels is a well-known archaeological site located in south western Germany in an area known as the Swabian Jura or Swabian Alps, part of province of Baden-Württemberg.
Aurignacian Art (40,000-25,000 BCE) Gravettian Art (25,000-20,000 BCE) Solutrean Art (20,000-15,000 BCE) Magdalenian Art (15,000-10,000 BCE) Mesolithic Art (from 10,000-variable BCE) Neolithic Art (Ends about 2,000 BCE)The Avdeevo Venuses exemplify prehistoric sculpture in the European heartland of Russia, during the period of Gravettian art (25,000-20,000 BCE).