Mannetje van Willemstad
The Mannetje van Willemstad ( German "Mannchen von Willemstad" ) is an oak figurine that was found in 1968 during the construction of the Volkerak lock, which was built as part of the Delta Works , at the transition to the island of Schouwen-Duiveland in the Netherlands .
That with the C14 method on about 4,450 BC. The idol, which was dated until the Mesolithic , was eight meters deep between the roots of an oak . The figure, in which only the face was formed more precisely, but the body was only designed in a very abstract way, has a height of about 125 mm, a width of 51 mm and a depth of 31 mm. The purpose of the figure created in the area of the Vlaardingen culture is unknown, it may be a ritual object .
The figure of Willemstad is in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden .
The man by Rude-Eskildstrup , who was found in Denmark in 1880, is comparable .
Individual evidence
- ^ Mannetje van Willemstad. (No longer available online.) Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, archived from the original on April 11, 2015 ; Retrieved March 18, 2011 (Dutch). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Rijksmuseum van Oudheden: Het mannetje van Willemstad (Dutch)