Resumen de New female figurines from the site Khotylevo 2
The paper is devoted to a stylistic analysis of the new figurines excavated in the Gravettian site of Khotylevo 2-V in July, 2009. They include a double female figurine and a schematic figure, carved out of chalk. The first statuette represents the image of two naked female figures that have been cut on a small chalk-slab. The figures are trapezium-shaped and designed in a realistic manner, which is usual for the Eastern Gravettian. The back of the slab is smoothed and divided by a longitudinal groove into two halves corresponding to female figures. Their image is not realistic from the back. The women stand shoulder by shoulder, and their heads, hands and feet were not carved. This composition of female images is unique in Palaeolithic portable art. The analogy to this composition is a bas-relief of women from Angles-sur-l'Anglin (Roc-aux-Sorciers). The second figure is flattened and trapeziumshaped also. Its front-side is divided by a horizontal groove into two parts. The back side is flat. We interpret this artifact as a schematic image of woman. If our assumption is correct, we suppose that the schematic woman's torso, found during the excavations of the Dolní Vìstonice site in Moravia, could be compared with figure 2.
