Scientists working with the Natural History Museum of Vienna may have uncovered the origin of the Venus of Willendorf, a 30,000-year-old figurine originally unearthed 114 years ago in Lower Austria ...

The prehistoric 'Venus of Willendorf' figurine pictured at the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria. The Venus of Willendorf, a figurine estimated to have been made around 25,000 to 30,000 years ...

Key points Venus figurines with exaggerated sexual characteristics first began to appear over 40,000 years ago. The earliest known human figurine, the Venus of Hohle Fels, dates back to about 41,000 ...

A 40,000-year-old figurine of a voluptuous woman carved from mammoth ivory and excavated from a cave in southwestern Germany is the oldest known example of three-dimensional or figurative ...

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Dec. 1 (UPI) --According to a new theory, Venus figurines, one of the world's earliest examples of art, weren't symbols of beauty or fertility, as has been previously suggested. Instead, researchers ...

Co-authored with Journay Clinch, MA candidate, Psychology Department, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Scattered across the archeological sites of the Eurasian continent, hundreds of ...