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Dancer.Detail of a black earthenware vessel with stamp decoration from Sopron,Hungary. Overall height: 41,5 cm See also 07-01-03/15,16;05-01-06/54,55
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Dancer.Detail of a black earthenware vessel with stamp decoration fr...

Woman with lyre.Detail of a black earthenware vessel with stamp decoration from Sopron,Hungary. Overall height: 41,5 cm See also 07-01-03/15,16;05-01-06/53,55.
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Woman with lyre.Detail of a black earthenware vessel with stamp decoration fr...

Geometric design and stamp ornament.Detail of a black earthenware vessel from Sopron,Hungary. Overall height: 41,5 cm See also 07-01-03/15,16;05-01-06/53,54.
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Geometric design and stamp ornament.Detail of a black earthenware vessel from...

Loring Brace, Anthropologist of the University of Michigan, with a skeleton in the background, photographed at the Museum of Natural History Vienna, Austria
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Loring Brace, Anthropologist of the University of Michigan, with a skeleton in...

Venus of Willendorf. Carved out of limestone, 11cm tall, discovered at an excavation in Willendorf, Lower Austria on 7 August 1908. One of the many female statuettes, nicknamed "Venus" figurines, that were made of stone, bone and ivory in the Upper Palaeolithic, 28.000 to 12.000 BCE. Statuettes with similar features - symmetrical posture, large breasts, abdomen and buttocks, reduced arms and feet, no face - were found throuout Europe, from western France to Siberia. Their purpose and meaning to the palaeolithic hunters and gatherers is subject to much speculation. The interpretations range from stone age sex symbol and mother godess to talisman, shaman and ancestor cult object, dependig on the interpreter and his or her social and political background.
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Venus of Willendorf. Carved out of limestone, 11cm tall, discovered at an exca...

Venus of Willendorf. Carved out of limestone, 11cm tall, discovered at an excavation in Willendorf, Lower Austria on 7 August 1908. One of the many female statuettes, nicknamed "Venus" figurines, that were made out of stone, bone and ivory in the Upper Palaeolithic, 28.000 to 12.000 BCE. Statuettes with similar features - symmetrical posture, large breasts, abdomen and buttocks, reduced arms and feet, no face - were found throuout Europe, from western France to Siberia. Their purpose and meaning to the palaeolithic hunters and gatherers is subject to much speculation. The interpretations range from stone age sex symbol and mother godess to talisman, shaman and ancestor cult object, dependig on the interpreter and his or her social and political background.
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Venus of Willendorf. Carved out of limestone, 11cm tall, discovered at an exca...

Venus of Willendorf. Carved out of limestone, 11cm tall, discovered at an excavation in Willendorf, Lower Austria on 7 August 1908. One of the many female statuettes, nicknamed "Venus" figurines, that were made out of stone, bone and ivory in the Upper Palaeolithic, 28.000 to 12.000 BCE. Statuettes with similar features - symmetrical posture, large breasts, abdomen and buttocks, reduced arms and feet, no face - were found throuout Europe, from western France to Siberia. Their purpose and meaning to the palaeolithic hunters and gatherers is subject to much speculation. The interpretations range from stone age sex symbol and mother godess to talisman, shaman and ancestor cult object, dependig on the interpreter and his or her social and political background.
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Venus of Willendorf. Carved out of limestone, 11cm tall, discovered at an exca...

Venus of Willendorf. Carved out of limestone, 11cm tall, discovered at an excavation in Willendorf, Lower Austria on 7 August 1908. One of the many female statuettes, nicknamed "Venus" figurines, that were made out of stone, bone and ivory in the Upper Palaeolithic, 28.000 to 12.000 BCE. Statuettes with similar features - symmetrical posture, large breasts, abdomen and buttocks, reduced arms and feet, no face - were found throuout Europe, from western France to Siberia. Their purpose and meaning to the palaeolithic hunters and gatherers is subject to much speculation. The interpretations range from stone age sex symbol and mother godess to talisman, shaman and ancestor cult object, dependig on the interpreter and his or her social and political background.
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Venus of Willendorf. Carved out of limestone, 11cm tall, discovered at an exca...

Spearheads made of antlers. From Willendorf II, stratum 4, Lower Austria.
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Spearheads made of antlers. From Willendorf II,...

Blade-scraper, Willendorf II, stratum 5.
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Blade-scraper, Willendorf II, stratum 5.

Stone age tool with sharpened edge from Willendorf II, stratum 9, Lower Austria.
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Stone age tool with sharpened edge from Willendorf II,...

Various scrapers from Willendorf II, stratum 4, Lower Austria.
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Various scrapers from Willendorf II, stratum 4, Lower Austria...