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Photograph of the Venus of Willendorf

Photograph of the Venus of Willendorf, an 11.1-centimetre-high (4.4 in) Venus figurine ; made between about 28,000 and 25,000 BCE. It was found in 1908 by a workman named Johann Veran during excavations conducted by archaeologists Josef Szombathy, Hugo Obermaier and Josef Bayer at a Palaeolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the town of Krems. carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre.
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Title: Photograph of the Venus of Willendorf
Caption: Photograph of the Venus of Willendorf, an 11.1-centimetre-high (4.4 in) Venus figurine ; made between about 28,000 and 25,000 BCE. It was found in 1908 by a workman named Johann Veran during excavations conducted by archaeologists Josef Szombathy, Hugo Obermaier and Josef Bayer at a Palaeolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the town of Krems. carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre.
Credit: Album / World History Archive
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Image size: 3793 × 5529 px | 60.0 MB
Print size: 32.1 × 46.8 cm | 1493.3 × 2176.8 in (300 dpi)
Keywords: ANCIENT ART • ANCIENT • APHRODITE • ARCHAEOLOGY • ART • AUSTRIA • AUSTRIAN • BC • BCE • EARTHWORK • EXCAVATED • EXCAVATION • FERTILITY SYMBOL • FERTILITY • FIGURINE • FOTOGRAFIA • GROUNDWORK • HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY • HUGO OBERMAIER • JOHANN VERAN • JOSEF BAYER • JOSEF SZOMBATHY • LIMESTONE • MOMENT IN TIME • NAVVYING • OOLITIC • PALAEOLITHIC • PHOTO • PHOTOGRAPH • PHOTOGRAPHIE • PHOTOGRAPHY • PHOTOS • PRE-HISTORIC • RED OCHRE • STATUETTE • TINTED • VENUS OF WILLENDORF • VENUS • VENUS; • WILLENDORF CULTURE • WILLENDORF