Venus figurine
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A Venus figurine is any Upper Palaeolithic statue portraying a woman, usually carved in the round. Most have been unearthed in Europe, but others have been found as far away as Siberia and distributed
Venus of Willendorf
Venus of Hohle Fels, the earliest known Venus figurine
Vénus impudique, 1907 drawing
Venus of Dolní Věstonice, the earliest discovered use of ceramics (29,000 – 25,000 BCE)
Venus of Willendorf
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The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-tall Venus figurine estimated to have been made c. 30,000 years ago. It was recovered on 7 August 1908 on an archaeological dig conducted by Josef Szombat
Venus figurine
…emphasised vulva. Four years later, Salomon Reinach published an article about a group of soapstone figurines from the caves of Balzi Rossi. The famous Venus of Willendorf was excavated in 1908 from a loess deposit in the Danube valley located in Austria. Since then, hundreds of similar figurines have been discovered from…
Venus von Willendorf 01
Figurine seen from four sides