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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 .
Venus of Willendorf Venus of Hohle Fels, the earliest known Venus figurine. A Venus figurine is any Upper Palaeolithic statue portraying a woman, usually carved in the round. [1] Most have been unearthed in Europe, but others have been found as far away as Siberia and distributed across much of Eurasia.
Venus of Willendorf (3 P) Pages in category "Venus figurines" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
The Gravettian was an archaeological industry of the European Upper Paleolithic that succeeded the Aurignacian circa 33,000 years BP. [1] [4] It is archaeologically the last European culture many consider unified, [5] and had mostly disappeared by c. 22,000 BP, close to the Last Glacial Maximum, although some elements lasted until c. 17,000 BP. [2]
Pages in category "Venus of Willendorf" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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[19] [9] The eleven-centimetre Venus was X-rayed using the new method of micro-computed tomography. This showed that the figurine had been made of the sedimentary rock oolite . [ 20 ] [ 9 ] Microscopic comparative analyses from Austria and all over Europe showed that this material is only congruent with the oolite deposit near Lake Garda . [ 21 ]
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