statue fertility goddess Venus of Willendorf

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The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-tall (4.4 in) Venus figurine estimated to have been made 30,000 BCE
It was found on August 7, 1908, by a workman named Johann Veran or Josef Veram
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during excavations conducted by archaeologists Josef Szombathy, Hugo Obermaier, and Josef Bayer at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the town of Krems. It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre.

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The figurine is now in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.

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