Route: Human figure
 

 
Artefact's name: The Thinker
 
Museum of: Bucharest
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Romania
Chronology: 5000 BC
 
Period: Late Neolithic
 
The figurine known as The Thinker is a masterpiece of the European Prehistory
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: The Seated Woman
 
Museum of: Bucharest
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Romania
Chronology: 5000 BC
 
Period: Late Neolithic
 
The Seated Woman is the Thinker's pair
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Anthropomorphic statuette with pot on the head
 
Museum of: Bucharest
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Romania
Chronology: 4500-4000 BC
 
Period: Eneolithic
 
The figurine has a striking visual message materialized in its attitude
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Statuette with two heads
 
Museum of: Bucharest
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Romania
Chronology: 5000 BC
 
Period: Late Neolithic
 
The artefact depicts a rare and thought-provoking iconographical theme
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Impressed ware with sun and two figures in adorati
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Italy
Chronology: 6800-6100 BP
 
Period: Early Neolithic
 
Large ovoidal shaped jar with four small horizontal handles, decorated with cardial impressions to represent a stylized man in worship, some spikes and the sun .
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Antropomorphic Figurine
 
Museum of: Sofia
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
 
Period: Chalcolithic
 
The figurine is standing, the head is cylindrical. The bust, belly and the bottom have a relief representation. The arms arebend at tne elbows, the hands are on the belly. The legs are put together. Dark gray...
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Antropomorphic weight
 
Museum of: Sofia
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
 
Period: Neolithic
 
Oval shape, ellipsoidal base, shaft hole in the upper part.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Pintadera
 
Museum of: Sofia
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
 
Period: Chalcolithic
 
Stylized schematic anthropomorphic figurine in adoration on an elongated six-angled base.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Antropomorphic Figurine
 
Museum of: Sofia
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
 
Period: Bronze Age
 
The figurine has a shallow body, the torso is flat, the head is rhomboidal.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Vessel
 
Museum of: Sofia
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
 
Period: Neolithic
 
Sphere-like bottom part and high cylindrical neck.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Plate with incises and signs
 
Museum of: Sofia
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
 
Period: Chalcolithic
 
In the shape of shallow small vessel.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Cult scene
 
Museum of: Sofia
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Bulgaria
Chronology: -
 
Period: Chalcolithic
 
The scene probably is a replica of a real existed sanctuary.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Statuette of Favella
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Italy
Chronology: 6900 BP
 
Period: Early Neolithic
 
From the Early Neolithic village of Favella comes a set of pottery statuettes with a special emphasis on the sexual aspects of the motherhood
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Marmotta’s Venus
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Italy
Chronology: 6800-6100 BP
 
Period: Early Neolithic Period
 
The so-called Marmotta’s Venus, a female carved stone figurine, was found by the underwater excavations in the village.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Boot-shaped vessel
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 1250-800 BC
 
Period: Late Bronze Age
 
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Artefact's name: Double-faced vessel
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 5200-4900 BC
 
Period: Middle Neolithic Age
 
The reconstructed bottle-shaped vessel.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Headless idol (for interchangeable heads)
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 3700-2800 BC
 
Period: Late Copper Age
 
Unearthed from a settlement of the Baden culture.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Vessel with symbolic representation
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 2200-1900 BC
 
Period: Early Bronze Age 3.a
 
Vessel with stylized sun and moon decoration.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Facial vessel in the form of a sitting figure
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 5200-4900 BC
 
Period: Middle Neolithic Age
 
This vessel thoroughly imitates the form of the human body.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Idol head fragment
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 5200-4900 BC
 
Period: Middle Neolithic Age
 
Roughly worked head of an idol from clay made lean with sand and chaff.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Idol head fragment with headdress
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 2500-2200 BC
 
Period: Early Bronze Age 2
 
Idol fragment with headdress from the Early Bronze Age.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Human depiction
 
Museum of: Berlin
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Serbia
Chronology: 7th mil. BC
 
Period: Early Neolithic
 
The sculpture is of oval-cylindrical shape.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Female figurine
 
Museum of: Berlin
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Romania
Chronology: 4th mil. BC
 
Period: Upper Neolithic
 
Illustrations of mother deities as a symbol for fertility were widespread in Europe during the Upper Paleolithic und Neolithic periods.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Anthropomorphic vessel
 
Museum of: Berlin
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 3rd mil. BC
 
Period: Late Neolithic
 
Foot vessel in form of a female figure with raised arms and indicated breasts.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Belt plate
 
Museum of: Berlin
 
Object type: Other
Country: Poland
Chronology: 9 - 8 century BC
 
Period: Late Bronze Age
 
The plate is decorated with incised lines and point-fringed hemispheres.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Clay anthropomorphic vase
 
Museum of: Athens
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Greece
Chronology: 4800-4500 BC
 
Period: Late Neolithic II
 
Clay anthropomorphic vase decorated with incisions.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Marble female figurine
 
Museum of: Athens
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Greece
Chronology: 6500-5300 BC
 
Period: Early Neolithic
 
Marble, female,steatopygic figurine, probably a goddess or a priestess.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Ring shaped amulet
 
Museum of: Athens
 
Object type: Amulet
Country: Greece
Chronology: 4500-3300BC
 
Period: Final Neolithic
 
Gold ring-shaped amulet of hammered sheet depicting a very schematised female figure.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Stone horned amulet
 
Museum of: Athens
 
Object type: Amulet
Country: Greece
Chronology: 5300-4500BC
 
Period: Late Neolithic II
 
Stone anthropomorphic amulet
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: The Kourotrophos (Nurse)
 
Museum of: Athens
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Greece
Chronology: 4800-4500BC
 
Period: Late Neolithic
 
Seated woman with a baby in her arms
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: The thinker
 
Museum of: Athens
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Greece
Chronology: 4500-3300BC
 
Period: Final Neolithic
 
Large clay figurine of a seated male
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Venus from Willendorf
 
Museum of: Wien
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Austria
Chronology: 25000 bc
 
Period: Upper Palaeolithic
 
One of the finest examples of palaeolithic sculpture representing a naked women with heavy breasts and prominent belly.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Double-faced vessel B
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Hungary
Chronology: 5200-5000/4900 BC
 
Period: Middle<<
 
Neolithic Double-faced pot with "M" -shaped line framing the face from Budapest, Békásmegyer
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Fragment of faced pot
 
Museum of: Budapest
 
Object type: Vessel/Anphora
Country: Pest
Chronology: 4700-4600 BC
 
Period: Middle<<
 
Representation of Human face on the lip of a vessel from Neolithic
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Statuette of Favella B
 
Museum of: Rome
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Italy
Chronology: 6900 BP
 
Period: Early Neolithic
 
The statuette representing a female figure was recovered mutilated at the basin level.
 
 
 

 
Artefact's name: Clay figurine from Sipinci
 
Museum of: Wien
 
Object type: Human figurine
Country: Ukraine
Chronology: 3000 bc
 
Period: Eneolithic
 
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