Venus of Willendorf

The "Venus of Willendorf" is a statuette that is of a human women. It was discovered in 1908 by the archaeologist Joseph Szombathy. It was found in the lower part of Austria. This statuette was made somewhere around 25,000BC. This statuette is 11 centimeters in height and 4 centimeters in width. It is a pretty small statuette. It looks like a very fat women. It has a very big stomach and butt. You can't see her face because it is covered with a braided pattern that is probably her hair. The feet appear to be broken off. The reason she is fat may be that in the stone age that ate a lot of bone and marrow. Some think that since the statuette is detailed that maybe there was a model for this which would mean that people in the stone age actually looked like that. The "Venus of Willendorf" was sculpted from yellowish limestone. This statuette tells us a lot about the stone age but things are still not definite.

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