Venus figurines by Oelknitz

Venus figurines by Oelknitz from the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of Thuringia in Weimar

In the Venus figurines of Oelknitz is Stone Age representations of the female body.

description

The Venus figurines are made of ivory, slate rubble and river rubble. The age of the Venus figurines is given as 15,000 to 11,500 years; they come from the Magdalenian . The figurines are between 3.6 and 6 cm long. You are in the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of Thuringia in Weimar.

The site was found in the Oelknitz open-air settlement , an open-air site in the Saale valley south of Jena. The excavations took place in 1957-67 and were carried out by Rudolf Feustel and Günter Behm-Blanke.

See also

• Venus figurines from Gönnersdorf
• Engraved slate from Gönnersdorf
• Venus figurines from Nebra
• Upper Paleolithic minor art

literature

• H. Delporte: L'image de la femme dans l'art préhistorique. Picard, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-7084-0034-7 .
• Hansjürgen Müller-Beck , Gerd Albrecht (ed.): The beginnings of art 30,000 years ago. Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0508-6 .

Web links

• Photos of the Venus figurines by Oelknitz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Müller-Beck & Albrecht (1987), p. 113.

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 18 ″  N , 11 ° 37 ′ 27 ″  E