Venus of Willendorf
The Venus of Willendorf is an Venus figurine estimated to have been made around 25,000 years ago. It was found on August 7, 1908, by a workman named Johann Veran or Josef Veram during excavations conducted by archaeologists Josef Szombathy, Hugo Obermaier, and Josef Bayer at a Paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria. It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre. The figurine is now in the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria.
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Venus of Willendorf
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Venus figurine
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1908-08-07T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
August 7, 1908
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archaeologist
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Josef Szombathy
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Hugo Obermaier
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Paleolithic
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Willendorf
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Lower Austria
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oolitic
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limestone
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red ochre
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Natural History Museum
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Vienna
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Q131397
Venus of Willendorf
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Venus figurine
Concept
Q688704
Natural History Museum
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Q1741
Vienna
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