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The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-tall (4.4 in) Venus figurine estimated to have been made c. 30,000 years ago. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was recovered on 7 August 1908 from an archaeological dig conducted by Josef Szombathy , Hugo Obermaier , and Josef Bayer at a Paleolithic site near Willendorf , a village in Lower Austria .
The material from the 30,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf, discovered in 1908, was examined by Weber and geologists Alexander Lukeneder and Mathias Harzhauser as well as the prehistorian Walpurga Antl-Weiser. [19] [9] The eleven-centimetre Venus was X-rayed using
Vénus impudique, 1907 drawing. Upper Palaeolithic female figurines are collectively described as "Venus figurines" in reference to the Roman goddess of beauty Venus. The name was first used in the mid-nineteenth century by the Marquis de Vibraye, who discovered an ivory figurine and named it La Vénus impudique or Venus Impudica ("immodest ...
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Josef Szombathy born Szombathy József (11 June 1853 – 9 November 1943) was an Austro-Hungarian archaeologist; he was present when the Venus of Willendorf was discovered in 1908. [ 1 ] The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-high (4.4 in) statuette of a female figure, discovered at a paleolithic site near Willendorf , a village in Lower ...
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