Venus of Galgenberg
Encyclopedia
The Venus of Galgenberg is a Venus figurine of the Aurignacian
, dated to ca. 30,000 years ago.
It was discovered in 1988 close to Stratzing
, Austria
, not far from the site of the Venus of Willendorf
.
The figurine measures 7.2 cm in height and weighs 10 g. It is sculptured from green Serpentine rock.
Aurignacian
The Aurignacian culture is an archaeological culture of the Upper Palaeolithic, located in Europe and southwest Asia. It lasted broadly within the period from ca. 45,000 to 35,000 years ago in terms of conventional radiocarbon dating, or between ca. 47,000 and 41,000 years ago in terms of the most...
, dated to ca. 30,000 years ago.
It was discovered in 1988 close to Stratzing
Stratzing
Stratzing is a town in the district of Krems-Land in the Austrian state of Lower Austria....
, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
, not far from the site of the Venus of Willendorf
Venus of Willendorf
The Venus of Willendorf, also known as the Woman of Willendorf, is an high statuette of a female figure estimated to have been made between 24,000 and 22,000 BCE. It was discovered in 1908 by archaeologist Josef Szombathy at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the...
.
The figurine measures 7.2 cm in height and weighs 10 g. It is sculptured from green Serpentine rock.
Literature
- Das neolithische Fundmaterial von St.Pölten/Galgenleithen. in: Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien. Wien 108.1978, 50ff.
- Zur altsteinzeitlichen Besiedlungsgeschichte des Galgenberges von Stratzing/Krems - Rehberg. in: Archäologie Österreichs. Mitteilungen der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte. Bd 18. Wien 4.1993,1,10 ff.
- Bednarik, Robert (1989) The Galgenberg figurine from Krems, Austria. Rock Art ResearchRock Art ResearchRock Art Research is the journal of the International Federation of Rock Art Organizations and of the Australian Rock Art Research Association Inc - . Based in Melbourne, Australia, and founded in 1984, it has since been the world's premier academic journal in the fields of pre-Historic art...
. 6. 118-25
External links
- Venus vom Galgenberg from the Aeiou EncyclopediaAeiou EncyclopediaAEIOU is a free online collection of reference works in both German and English about Austria-related topics.-Background:...
. - http://www.donsmaps.com/galgenbergvenus.html