Venus of Waldstetten

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The Venus von Waldstetten is an approx. 15,000 year old Venus figurine made of quartzite rubble . The find was apparently brought to the site by people. The figure is unprocessed in its basic form, but shows engravings that were clearly made by humans. Therefore she is interpreted as a female figure. It is 5.8 cm long with a maximum width of 1.9 cm; 2.5 cm thick and 25.3 g in weight.

The circumferential engraving in the neck area means that, in addition to the interpretation as a female figure, an interpretation as a phallic representation is also possible, analogous to the interpretation of the double sex of the so-called red of walls . The engraving around the “head” can also be seen as an aid when hanging the figure

The site is near Waldstetten in the Ostalb district on a stepped terrain between the Remstal and the Swabian layered landscape. The artefact was picked up by the amateur archaeologist Adolf Regen from the Schwäbisch Gmünd Stone Age Working Group . Harald Floss , prehistorian at the University of Tübingen, confirmed the piece as an authentic prehistoric female figure .

The Venus von Waldstetten is compared with the figurines of the Gönnersdorf design type, which were typical of the Magdalenian . This type of female figure is named after the engraved depictions of female bodies on slate from Gönnersdorf, which are roughly the same age. Due to its extraordinary cultural and historical importance, the figure has become the property of the state of Baden-Württemberg.

literature

  • Adolf Regen, Wolfgang Naak, Stefan Wettengl, Simon Fröhle, Harald Floss: A female figure of the Gönnersdorf type from the Magdalenian open-air site in Waldstetten-Schlatt, Ostalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg . In: Harald Floss (Ed.): The Magdalénien in Southwest Germany, Alsace and Switzerland (Tübingen Publications in Prehistory), 2019, ISBN 978-3-935751-29-2 , PDF file .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adolf Regen, Wolfgang Naak, Stefan Wettengl, Simon Fröhle, Harald Floss: A female figure of the Gönnersdorf type from the Magdalenian open field site in Waldstetten-Schlatt, Ostalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, pp. 267-276. In: Harald Floss (Ed.): The Magdalénien in southwest Germany, in Alsace and in Switzerland (Tübingen Publications in Prehistory), 2019. p. 275.
  2. ↑ Press releases from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen from October 23, 2019: New art from the Ice Age: 15,000-year-old female figure recovered in the Ostalb district - Archaeologists from Tübingen present find from Waldstetten. [1]
  3. ↑ Bosinski, G. 1982: The Art of the Ice Age in Germany and Switzerland. Catalogs of prehistoric antiquities 20. Bonn: Habelt.