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DigsSite Name: Venus of WillendorfCountry: Austria
NOTE: This site is 11.621 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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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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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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