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	Venus of Willendorf: 5. Earth Mother - Mother Goddess
		Although the paradigm of the "Venus" of Willendorf as Mother Goddess persists, in recent years the figurine has also been interpreted as possibly functioning in a more gynaecological context, perhaps serving as a charm or amulet of some kind for women in connection with fertility.
		At the time of its discovery, the statuette showed traces of red ochre pigment, which has been thought to symbolize, or serve as a surrogate of, the menstrual blood of women as a life-giving agent, as is the case in later traditions.
		The emphasis given to the "Venus" of Willendorf's vulva and the possibility that the red ochre served as a blood substitute suggest that the figurine may have served some purpose in connection with female menstruation.
	witcombe.sbc.edu /willendorf/willendorfgoddess.html (770 words)

	Venus of Willendorf - Picture - MSN Encarta
		This so-called Venus figurine from the area of Willendorf, Austria, is one of the earliest known examples of sculpture, dating from about 23,000 bc.
		The figure, which is carved out of limestone, is only 11.25 cm (4.5 in) high, and was probably designed to be held in the hand.
		It is believed the Venus may be a fertility symbol, which would explain the exaggerated female anatomy.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461517441/Venus_of_Willendorf.html (74 words)

	Venus of Willendorf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Venus of Willendorf, also known as the Woman of Willendorf, is a 11.1 cm (4 3/8 inches) high statuette (mini statue) of a female figure, discovered at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, Austria, in 1908 by archaeologist Josef Szombathy.
		It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre.
		Venus of Willendorf is part of the collection of the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf (520 words)

	Venus figurines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Venus figurines is an umbrella term for a number of prehistoric items, mostly in statuette form, of obese or heavily pregnant women from the Aurignacian or Gravettian period of the upper Palaeolithic, found in Europe.
		A relationship has been suggested between the female shape of the venus figurines and the steatopygia of the world's most genetically archetypical humans, the Khoisan.
		Two much older finds are also often categorized as Venus figurines - the Venus of Berekhat Ram, dating to between 800,000 and 233,000 BCE, and the Venus of Tan-Tan, which dates to between 500,000 and 300,000 BCE, the Middle Acheulean period.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Venus_figurines (188 words)

	The Venus of Willendorf
		The Venus of Willendorf was carved from oolitic limestone, and was covered with a thick layer of red ochre when found.
		Willendorf on the Donau, where the Venus of Willendorf was discovered.
		Although admittedly speculation, the Venus of Willendorf may have been used as a talisman in a precarious world of heightened obstetric related mortality.
	donsmaps.com /willendorf.html (696 words)

	Venus of Willendorf Key Ring
		Venus or Goddess of Willendorf is one of the most famous early images of a woman, made more than 25,000 years ago at a time when, scholars say, women were revered for their ability to give life.
		She was found in 1908 by archaeologist Josef Szombathy near the town of Willendorf in Austria, and is the oldest religious image in the Western World.
		Willendorf Goddess represents Gaia, Mother Earth in all her raw and fertile splendor.
	www.adirondackguitar.com /scaryM/venus/venuspage.htm (267 words)

	Wild Wisdom - Site Map
		This Venus of Willendorf charm is silver-plated, lead-free pewter and is approx.
		She is also called Venus, Aphrodite, Innana, Ishtar, Astarte, Nuit, Brigit and many other names.
		The original Venus of Willendorf was discovered in 1908 by the archaeologist Josef Szombathy near the town of Willendorf in Austria.
	www.wildwisdom.net /Site_Map.html (2647 words)

	Venus of Willendorf
		Another obvious comparison is to that of Venus, the Classical goddess of sexual love and beauty and her namesake.
		If she was real, she had to have been someone who was in a high enough position that people served her because she appeared to have more than enough food, but not quite physically active.
		It is thought that the Aurignacians used Venus of Willendorf as a luck charm for fertile crops and good hunts, but it could have signified their governor.
	www.angelfire.com /mn2/hmalone/a1venus (877 words)

	Venus de Willendorf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The most famous early image of a human, a woman, is the so-called "Venus" of Willendorf, found in 1908 by the archaeologist Josef Szombathy [see BIBLIOGRAPHY] in an Aurignacian loess deposit near the town of Willendorf in Austria and now in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna.
		Her great age and exaggerated female forms have established the "Venus" of Willendorf as an icon of prehistoric art.
		Although she was already being included in books devoted to Stone Age art published in the 1920s, it is not until the 1960s that the statuette begins to appear in the introductory art history books where she quickly displaced other previously used examples of Palaeolithic art.
	www.asu.edu /cfa/wwwcourses/art/SOACore/Willendorf_portfolio.htm (353 words)

	Search The Llewellyn Encyclopedia and Glossary: Willendorf
		Willendorf: The goddess of Willendorf was found in 1908 near Willendorf in Austria.
		She is over 30,000 years old and is one of the oldest pieces of artwork found on the planet.
		Most commonly she is known as the Venus of Willendorf; however, Venus was a goddess who did not appear until later in the history of humankind.
	www.llewellynencyclopedia.com /term/Willendorf (108 words)

	Artifacts
		The most famous Venus figurine is the "Venus of Willendorf." The Willendorf was found in an area of Willendorf, Austria, and continues to be the standard for descriptions of this specific type of figurine.
		The Venus of Willendorf itself, does not cease to hide it's feminine aspects, and is quite similar in characteristics to the Gaia figure within Greek mythology.
		With the Willendorf figurines, are seen the first images of a Paleolithic female, or goddess figure, and with them the ability of humans to take from their own minds and create an image in the form of art.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/artifacts/venusfigurines.html (1146 words)

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		Venus of Willendorf circa: Venus of Willendorf was found in 1908 in Lascaux France, and is from circa 30,000-25,000 BCE.
		When the statue was found, the Venus of Willendorf was easily placed into historical tradition of depicting women as goddesses, and therefore, she was named Venus of Willendorf.
		Venus of Willendorf has large breasts and has no emphasis on her stomach or hips; she does not have feet, yet her pubic area is overly detailed.
	www.tufts.edu /programs/mma/fah189a/aossip/goddess.txt (750 words)

	IWR Art - Venus, But Not In Blue Jeans
		Venus was the enhanced Roman version of the Greek goddess Aphrodite.
		The Venus cult started are 293 BCE, and her images were displayed throughout the Roman empire, including this masterpiece from Pompeii.
		My favorite Venus, which is also one of my favorite works of art of all time, is the Birth of Venus by Botticelli.
	www.internetweekly.org /2007/03/venus_but_not_in_bluejeans.html (420 words)

	Prehistoric Art (Virtual Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Venus from Willendorf" - a woman's statuette from fine-grained dense limestone, 11 cm, Aurignacian.
		Traces of red dye on the surface of the statuette.
		Found in Austria, in the township of Willendorf on the left bank of the Danube in 1908.
	vm.kemsu.ru /en/palaeolith/plastic/willendorf.html (41 words)

	venus of Willendorf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Venus of Willendorf is one of the oldest known artistic representations of the human form.
		This statue, unearthed in the town of Willendorf in Austria in the early part of the twentieth century, is the most famous and best preserved of hundreds of similar figures created in the Paleolithic era (also called the Stone Age) around 30,000 years B.P. (Before Present).
		The large female form may have been considered by these peoples to be the embodiment of the richness of nature, the wonder of creation, and the beauty of the Earth and her people.
	www.cswd.org /venus.htm (336 words)

	Furs for Evening, but Cloth Was the Stone Age Standby
		In a new analysis of the renowned "Venus" figurines, the hand-size statuettes of female bodies carved from 27,000 to 20,000 years ago, the researchers have found evidence that the women of the so-called upper Paleolithic era were far more accomplished, economically powerful and sartorially gifted than previously believed.
		Scrutinizing the famed Venus of Willendorf, for example, which was discovered in lower Austria in 1908, the researchers paid particular attention to the statuette's head.
		On the Venus of Lespugue, an approximately 25,000-year-old figurine from southwestern France, the anthropologists noticed a "remarkable" degree of detail lavished on the rendering of a string skirt, with the tightness and angle of each individual twist of the fibers carefully delineated.
	www.unl.edu /rhames/courses/212/venus/venus_string.html (2014 words)

	Woman of Willendorf
		30,000 to 25,000 BC The 'Venus of Willendorf' is the name that was given to a female figurine that was found in 1908 by an archeologist named Joseph Szombathy in a Aurignacian loess deposit near the town of Willendorf in Austria.
		The first suggestion is that it was a "Venus figure" or "Goddess," used as a symbol of fertility.
		Apart from being female, the statue has an enlarged stomach and breasts, its pubic area is greatly emphasized, probably serving as a representative of procreativity, and the red ochre pigment covering it has been thought to symbolize or serve as menstrual blood seen as a life giving agent.
	www.thenagain.info /WebChron/World/Willendorf.html (536 words)

	Venus figurines Information
		Venus figurines is an umbrella term for a number of prehistoric items, mostly in statuette form, of obese or heavily pregnant women from the Aurignacian or Gravettian period of the upper Palaeolithic, found in Europe.
		A relationship has been suggested between the female shape of the venus figurines and the steatopygia of the world's most genetically archetypical humans, the Khoisan.
		Two much older finds are also often categorized as Venus figurines - the Venus of Berekhat Ram, dating to between 800,000 and 233,000 BCE, and the Venus of Tan-Tan, which dates to between 500,000 and 300,000 BCE, the Middle Acheulean period.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Venus_figurines (149 words)

	Clothing of figurines may be record of Ice Age tribes' skills
		Even the head dress worn by the Venus of Willendorf arguably reflects social traditions still seen today in the babushkas worn by women in Eastern Europe or even the bonnets favored by Amish women in Pennsylvania.
		In the case of the Venus of Willendorf, Adovasio said, they knew they were dealing with an icon.
		Likewise, if the Venus of Willendorf is indeed wearing a head covering, it too might be related to a present-day practice.
	www.post-gazette.com /healthscience/19990621vvenus2.asp (1450 words)

	Harriet Casdin-Silver, Venus of Willendorf 1991
		When I suggested a holographic "Venus of Willendorf '91" for the cover, we were on.
		The prehistoric "Venus of Willendorf", circa 20,000 B.C., discovered in 1908, was the first fertility figure to be found.
		Reactions to the "Venus '91" are fascinating from a sociological point of view as well as artistic: from two holographers, "Ugly" and "Made me want to throw up", to a shocked scientist's gasp as he gaped at a sunlit "Venus", to a curator and artist, "It's great, I want one".
	www.holonet.khm.de /Jross/collection/casdinvenus.html (452 words)

	Goddess of Willendorf (Venus of Willendorf) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Goddess of Willendorf, great-bellied giver of life and great-breasted source of nourishment, was also called the Venus of Willendorf.
		The Goddess of Willendorf, also called the Venus of Willendorf, inspired the exquisite glass art goddess collection of the internationally acclaimed glass artist Colin Heaney.
		When held in the palm of the hand, she is utterly transformed as a piece of sculpture, becoming a remarkably sensuous object, her flesh soft and yielding to the touch.
	www.goddessgift.com /colin-heaney-art-glass/goddess-willendorf-1.htm (218 words)

	THE DRESS IN THE "VENUS" OF LIGURIA, AUSTRIA AND MEXICO
		In the " European paleolithic Venus " the attribution (religious) that colleagues to the cult of the fecundity, however, is not in contrast with the erotic attribution, in how much these nudes could very well excite the fantasy of the male.
		The " Venus " of Tlatilco have the face complete of eyes, nose and mouth, but however it is not a face in realistic style, but it is an invented face, that is made in a style fashionable in that time.
		The European "Venus" and those of Tlatilco, are not only joined for having all the possession of hats and hairs, but also from having of two similar types.
	www.paleolithicartmagazine.org /pagina23.html (1683 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Venus of Willendorf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Venus Of Willendorf Low prices on venus of willendorf.
		Present study and knowledge of this art is largely confined to works discovered at more than 150 sites in W Europe, particularly to the magnificent cave paintings in N Spain and the Dordogne valley of SW France.
		Venus Of Willendorf Huge selection of Venus items.
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	Venus von Willendorf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Venus von Willendorf, one of the most famous archaeological finds in Austria, created around 25,000 B.C. Found on August 7, 1908 during the excavation of palaeolithic remains of a settlement at
		Made of limestone, 11 cm high sculpture in the round of an obese, nude woman, face-less head with parallel rows of curls, jagged bracelets on the wrists, originally covered with a thick layer of red colour.
		At the same place the possibly unfinished figurine of a woman with a height of 22.5 cm, and an oval body with a height of 9 cm, both made from the tusk of a mammoth, were found ("Venus II and III").
	aeiou.iicm.tugraz.at /aeiou.encyclop.v/v136200.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en (158 words)

	Venus von Willendorf (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Venus von Willendorf, one of the most famous archaeological finds in Austria, created around 25,000 B.C. Found on August 7, 1908 during the excavation of palaeolithic remains of a settlement at
		Made of limestone, 11 cm high sculpture in the round of an obese, nude woman, face-less head with parallel rows of curls, jagged bracelets on the wrists, originally covered with a thick layer of red colour.
		At the same place the possibly unfinished figurine of a woman with a height of 22.5 cm, and an oval body with a height of 9 cm, both made from the tusk of a mammoth, were found ("Venus II and III").
	www.aeiou.at /aeiou.encyclop.v/v136200.htm;internal&action=_setlanguage.action?LANGUAGE=en (158 words)

	Beauty Worlds: A Review of The Evolution of Allure
		A fascinating journey through history from the Bronze Age to the present day awaits the reader of this provocative and persuasive book.
		The proportions of the body (counted in heads) became something of an institution with the Medici Venus, Michelangelo’s David and Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing of The Vitruvius—Polykleitan canon being perhaps the best known examples of this.
		The Polykleitan ideal of 71/2 – 81/2 heads became the standard and is in stark contrast to prehistoric examples such as the Venus of Willendorf which is dated 21000-30000 BC and had measurements of about 6 heads high.
	www.beautyworlds.com /beautyevoallure.htm (1833 words)

	Collector's Plates: Collectible Plate - Goddess Venus (Aphrodite) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Goddess Venus collectible plate from the studio of Colin Heaney, celebrates the goddess in everywoman.
		Handcrafted, this collector's plate is the latest addition to the goddess glass art collection that was inspired by the goddess of Willendorf, one of the most ancient representations of feminine beauty, (also called the Venus of Willendorf).
		The design of the stunning Venus Plaque was derived from the painting 'The Birth of Venus' by Sandro Botticelli.
	www.goddessgift.com /colin-heaney-art-glass/goddess_venus_collectible_plate.htm (116 words)

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