What exactly do we know about prehistoric women? What did she look like? How did she live? Did she hunt? Did she pick? Or was she a housewife and seamstress waiting for her hunting husband? The beautiful Magdalena woman, drawn by Benoît Clarys, invites us to enter the heart of the exhibition, which seeks to answer these questions by taking stock of our current knowledge on the subject. The prehistoric woman is thus evoked by the burials containing her remains and her ornaments, and by the numerous representations, sculpted, painted or engraved, left between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago by the prehistoric peoples of the Upper Paleolithic itself and which testify to both a certain unity and a great diversity. The most famous prehistoric representations of women are presented in the form of engraved and carved blocks and 135 statuettes. Explanatory and illustrated panels further elaborate on the themes of the temporary exhibition created by Cedarc/Musée du Malgré-Tout.
Haute-Meuse Archaeological Museum, Rue du Prieuré 1, 5530 Godinne (Yvoir) Haute-Meuse Archaeological MuseumWhat exactly do we know about prehistoric women? What did she look like? How did she live? Did she hunt? Did she pick? Or was she a housewife and seamstress waiting for her hunting husband? The beautiful Magdalena woman, drawn by Benoît Clarys, invites us to enter the heart of the exhibition, which seeks to answer these questions by taking stock of our current knowledge on the subject. The prehistoric woman is thus evoked by the burials containing her remains and her ornaments, and by the numerous representations, sculpted, painted or engraved, left between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago by the prehistoric peoples of the Upper Paleolithic itself and which testify to both a certain unity and a great diversity. The most famous prehistoric representations of women are presented in the form of engraved and carved blocks and 135 statuettes. Explanatory and illustrated panels further elaborate on the themes of the temporary exhibition created by Cedarc/Musée du Malgré-Tout.
