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Europa's earliest literary reference is in the Iliad, which is commonly dated to the 8th century BC. [2] Another early reference to her is in a fragment of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, discovered at Oxyrhynchus. [3] The earliest vase-painting securely identifiable as Europa dates from the mid-7th century BC. [4]
Europa regina in Sebastian Münster's "Cosmographia". Europa regina, Latin for "Queen Europe", is the map-like depiction of the European continent as a queen. [1] [2] Made popular in the 16th century, the map shows Europe as a young and graceful woman wearing imperial regalia. The Iberian Peninsula (Hispania) is the head, wearing a hoop crown.
Homo erectus georgicus, which lived roughly 1.8 million years ago in Georgia, is the earliest hominid to be discovered in Europe. [2] The earliest appearance of anatomically modern people in Europe has been dated to 45,000 BC, referred to as the Early European modern humans.
Venus of Dolní Věstonice, the earliest discovered use of ceramics [16] (29,000 – 25,000 BCE) The majority of Venus figurines are depictions of women, and follow artistic conventions of the times. Most of the figurines display the same body shape with the widest point at the abdomen and the female reproductive organs exaggerated.
Closeup views of Europa obtained on 26 September 1998; images clockwise from upper left show locations from north to south as indicated at lower left. The Galileo orbiter found that Europa has a weak magnetic moment , which is induced by the varying part of the Jovian magnetic field.
Magdalenian Girl" or "Magdalenian Woman" (French: Femme magdalénienne) [2] [3] is the common name for a human skeleton, dated to the boundary between the Upper Paleolithic and the early Mesolithic, ca. 15,000 to 13,000 years old, in the Magdalenian period.
Finnish women enjoy a "high degree of equality" and "traditional courtesy" among men. [17] In 1906, the women of Finland became the first women in Europe to be granted the right to vote. [18] There are many women in Finland who hold prominent positions in Finnish society, in the academics, in the field of business, [18] and in the government of ...
Human molar tooth (considered to be the earliest human—Homo erectus/Homo ergaster—traces discovered in Europe outside Caucasian region), lower palaeolithic assemblages that belong to a core-and-flake non-Acheulian industry, and incised bones that may be the earliest example of human symbolic behaviour.