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Venus of Mauern
Gravettian
Venus of Mauern
c. 27,000 BP
reading list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus
of
Mauern
cover image source
Mauernbilder, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_von_Mauern_1.jpg
Object details
Material(s)
Limestone
Height
72mm
Width
0mm
Depth
0mm
Weight
0g
Currently held by
Archäologische Staatssammlung, Munich
Culture / creators
Date of creation
c. 27,000 BP
Technocomplex
Gravettian
Findspot
Findspot
Weinberghöhlen ("vineyard caves") near Mauern
Date of excavation
1948
Modern country
Site type
Discovered by
Lothar Zotz
tags
Red ochre
Phallic/feminine
Objects from this assemblage
No other objects found
