Venus figurines from Andernach

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Copy of a Venus figurine from Andernach, height: 4.7 cm, LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn
Copy of a Venus figurine from Andernach, ivory, height: 20 cm, LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn

The Venus figurines from Andernach are from 24 to 13400 BC. Stylized female statuettes made in the Magdalenian BC . The place where the statuettes were found is on the slope of Martinsberg in the city of Andernach . They are between 4.4 and 20 cm high. They are kept in the State Office for Monument Preservation Rhineland-Palatinate, Ground Monument Preservation, Koblenz branch.

Excavations of Andernach and Gönnersdorf, "Gönnersdorf type"

The Andernach site, like that of Gönnersdorf, is in the Neuwied Basin . Similar statuettes were found in Gönnersdorf, where another 81,000 artifacts were found. Statuettes and scratches of the "Gönnersdorf type", which is characterized by a certain type of strong stylization, as it also characterizes the Andernach works, were made between 13500 and 13000 BC. Made almost simultaneously in many places in Europe. They range from the Polish site of Wilczyce in the east, in the west to the English Church Hole in Nottinghamshire and the Cueva del Linar in northern Spain. The type is not tied to a specific material and therefore appears as an engraving or sculpture on the basis of ivory, antlers and bones, various types of stone and also as cave painting.

At the Gönnersdorf excavation site, eight excavation campaigns were carried out between 1968 and 1976 under the direction of Gerhard Bosinski . In the end, 16 figurines and a good 400 pictures of women engraved in slate came from the excavations in Gönnersdorf, 20 slate pictures and 24 figurines from Andernach. That is more than all the other sites of the European Magdalenian combined. There is also a large number of animal representations. The regularly returning hunter-gatherer groups initially preferred Andernach, but then met in Gönnersdorf in particular. The groups that met here came from the Maas area, the Lower Rhine and the area around Mainz.

See also

literature

  • Christiane Höck: The female statuettes of the Magdalenian of Gönnersdorf and Andernach. In: Yearbook of the Roman-Germanic Central Museum. 40, 1993, pp. 253-316.
  • Gerhard Bosinski : Prehistory on the Rhine . Kerns Verlag, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-935751-09-4 , pp. 320, 332 f.
  • Gerhard Bosinski: Gönnersdorf and Andernach-Martinsberg - Late Ice Age settlement sites . Archeology Directorate, Koblenz 2007, ISBN 978-3-929645-12-5 , pp. 320–327.
  • Henri Delporte : L'image de la femme dans l'art préhistorique . Ed. Picard, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-7084-0034-7 , p. 115.
  • Stephan Veil: Three ivory female statuettes from the Magdalenian site in Andernach, Rhineland-Palatinate. In: Archaeological correspondence sheet. 12, 1982, pp. 119-127.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Bosinski, Francesco D'Errico, Petra Schiller: The engraved depictions of women from Gönnersdorf. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, p. 342.
  2. ↑ Hansjürgen Müller-Beck , Gerd Albrecht: The beginnings of art 30,000 years ago. Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, p. 92.
  3. ↑ Gerhard Bosinski, Francesco D'Errico, Petra Schiller: The engraved depictions of women from Gönnersdorf. Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, p. 342.
  4. ↑ Sabine Gaudzinski-Windhäuer, Olaf Jörns: Contextualising the female image - symbols for common idea sand communal identity in Upper Palaeolithic Societies. In: Fiona Coward, Robert Hosfield, Matt Pope, Francis Wenban-Smith (Eds.): Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 288-314, here: Fig. 16.2.3, p. 292.
  5. ↑ Sabine Gaudzinski-Windhäuer, Olaf Jörns: Contextualising the female image - symbols for common idea sand communal identity in Upper Palaeolithic Societies. In: Fiona Coward, Robert Hosfield, Matt Pope, Francis Wenban-Smith (Eds.): Settlement, Society and Cognition in Human Evolution. Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 288-314, here: pp. 298 f.

Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 1 ″  N , 7 ° 24 ′ 0.7 ″  E