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|Description ||The "Dame de Brassempouy". | A female head carved
from ivory, found in the Grotte du Pape near to the village of
Brassempouy in 1894. The figure is only 3.6 cm big, and is
thought to be the oldest representation of a human face, dating
to almost 30,000 years ago. The figure normally resides in the
St Germain-en-Laye prehistory museum, but is seen here in an
exhibition of Women in Art throughout history, which I saw at
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