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DigsSite Name: Venus of Willendorf
Country: Austria
NOTE: This site is 19.539 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Vienna  Nearest Village: Willendorf
Latitude: 48.323680N  Longitude: 15.403310E
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Venus of Willendorf
Venus of Willendorf submitted by DrewParsons : I was lucky enough to visit Austria on a hiking trip in September 2008 when it was the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the Venus von Willendorf and she was on display in person in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna. Normally just a casting is on view but at this time the actual carving was displayed, albeit in very subdued light and controlled conditions. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Austria,
The Willendorf sites lie on lower terraces above the Danube with stone tools dating to Aurignacian Culture. Site location given is the approximate location of the excavation of the Venus of Willendorf, an 11.1 cm tall female statuette believed to have been created between 24,000 BCE and 22,000 BCE.

Excavations at Willendorf I through Willendorf VIII reveal early Upper Palaeolithic or Aurignacian settlements in four lower excavation levels, while the five levels above originate in the Mid-Upper Palaeolithic period during the Gravettian culture. (from the Venusium Museum at Willendorf.)

The venus statuette was discovered in 1908 by archaeologist Josef Szombathy at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, Austria. It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre. it is believed to represent the Mother Goddess.

The original Venus is housed at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, where it only occasionally is displayed.

See the large collection of information at Don Hitchcock's website, "Don's Maps"

Note: "The remarkably early date of the finds shows that modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped for much longer than we thought and that modern humans coped well with a variety of climates."
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Venus of Willendorf submitted by Martin_L : To give a sense of scale. (Replica of course :) July 2011 (3 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

Venus of Willendorf
Venus of Willendorf submitted by durhamnature : Sculpture of female figure, image from "Men of the Old Stone Age" via archive.org Site in Austria (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Venus of Willendorf submitted by FreundHain : Site in Austria (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Venus of Willendorf submitted by thecaptain : The Venus of Willendorf. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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43,500 year old Aurignacian Tools at Willendorf by bat400 on Wednesday, 24 September 2014
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In 1908 the famously plump Venus of Willendorf, thought to be a symbol of fecundity, was discovered during an excavation near the Austrian town of Melk. The statuette, on display at the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, has been dated to 30,000 years ago and is one of the world’s earliest examples of figurative art.

Now a team of archaeologists has dated a number of stone tools, excavated recently from the same site at the village of Willendorf, to 43,500 years ago. The multinational team, led by Dr Philip Nigst of the University of Cambridge, has identified the tools as belonging to the Aurignacian culture, generally accepted as indicative of modern human presence.

The results of the study will be published this week (22 September 2014) in a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA.

It is agreed that modern humans dispersed into Europe, and began to replace Neanderthals, at least 40,000 years ago. The new research pushes this date back to a potentially much earlier time when temperatures north of the Alps were cool.

"Recent finds at the Willendorf site contribute valuable new information to the debate about modern human colonisation of Europe,” said Nigst. “The remarkably early date of the finds shows that modern humans and Neanderthals overlapped for much longer than we thought and that modern humans coped well with a variety of climates.”

The stone tools, excavated between 2006 and 2011, include small ‘bladelets’, which were originally part of composite tools and may have been used as projectile points. Using stratigraphy and radiocarbon dating, the researchers demonstrated that the finds date to 43,500 years ago – making them significantly older than other known Aurignacian artefacts, which have been found all over Europe.

“The recent finds indicate a modern human presence and the date of the artefacts represents the oldest well-documented occurrence of modern humans in Europe,” said Dr Nigst.

The study reveals that modern humans were living in the region that is now Austria at the same time that Neanderthals were living in other parts of Europe and that modern humans and Neanderthals shared this region for longer than previously thought.

“The Willendorf finds strongly suggest that modern humans and Neanderthals met and interacted, and may well have exchanged both mates and ideas,” said Nigst.

“The picture emerging from our study is fascinating because we see significant changes in the material culture of the last Neanderthals – and these changes occur at the same time that modern humans were present at Willendorf. The timing of these events cannot be a coincidence.”

Analysis of the type of soil in which the tools were found, reveals that the tools were in use during an era when the climatic conditions were cool with a steppe-like environment with conifer trees distributed along river valleys.

For more, see: University of Cambridge news release.
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Venus of Willendorf: 100th anniversary of her excavation by Andy B on Tuesday, 30 September 2008
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Article on the 100th anniversary of her excavation

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