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Two much older finds are also often categorized as Venus figurines - the Venus Of Berekhat Ram , dating to between 800,000 and 233,000 BCE, and the Venus Of Tan-Tan , which dates to between 500,000 and 300,000 BCE, the Middle Acheulean period. Found in Asia and Africa respectively, these were made of Stone rather than ceramic. Both pieces are very rough, and may have been given approximate human form by natural Geological processes. However, the Venus of Berekhet Ram has striations suggesting human stone Tool -work, and the Venus of Tan-Tan bears evidence of having been painted; "a Greasy substance" on the stone's surface has been shown to contain Iron and Manganese and indicates that it was decorated by someone and used as a figurine, regardless of how it may have been formed. {Link without Title} Examples of Venus figurines include:
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