Venus of Dolní Věstonice, Unknown artist, Palaeolithic Europe
Unknown artist, Palaeolithic Europe·Venus of Dolní Věstonice·c. 29,000–25,000 BCE·Fired clay·Moravian Museum, Brno↓

Unknown artist, Palaeolithic Europe

Venus of Dolní Věstonice, c. 29,000–25,000 BCE

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A small nude woman with heavy breasts, belly and hips and only a slit-eyed hint of a face, modelled from local loess and fired at a low temperature about 30,000 years ago. Found in two pieces in 1925 at a mammoth hunters' settlement in Moravia, it is among the oldest known ceramic objects in the world.

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A 2004 scan found a child's fingerprint fired into the surface. Four small holes in the top of the head may once have held feathers.

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