Venus figurine during scanning(Dept. of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna) Venus of Willendorf(Dept. of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna ...

Europe’s prehistoric Venus figurines, dating from the Upper Paleolithic, are one of the world’s oldest art forms. With their voluptuous female figures carved from stone, ivory, horn ...

This is a pipe-clay figurine of Venus found during archaeological excavations at the Roman fort at Binchester (County Durham). It was probably owned by one of the soldiers stationed at Binchester ...

What it is: A lifelike figurine of a Neolithic woman carved out of the ivory core of a mammoth tusk. Where it was found: Inside the Grotte du Pape ("Pope's Cave") in Brassempouy, a village in ...

The "Venus of Hohle Fels" is a 40,000-year-old figurine and is so small it could be hidden in your fist. H. Jensen / University of Tübingen The oldest sculpture of a human being is so small it ...

Figure 1: Side and front views of the Venus of Hohle Fels. The figurine originates from a red-brown, clayey silt at the base of ∼1 m of Aurignacian deposits. One fragment was attributed to ...