!!!Venus vom Galgenberg

Venus vom Galgenberg, the oldest figurine of a woman and the oldest 
stone sculpture ever found, created around 30,000 B.C. Found on 
September 23, 1988 during the excavation of a habitation of 
palaeolithic hunters at  Galgenberg near Stratzing (Lower Austria), 
broken into several pieces. 7.2 cm high figurine of a woman 
weighing 10 g and made of greenish, very shiny amphibolite slate, 
the upper body is turned to the side, in a dancing position, 
three-dimensional front, flat back, believed to have had cultic or 
religious significance. The stone material is from the immediate 
vicinity of where the figurine was found, and the waste material 
provides proof that the figurine was made in the same area. Exhibited 
in the Weinstadt museum in Krems an der Donau.

!Literature
C. Neugebauer-Maresch, Zum Neufund einer 30.000 Jahre 
alten Statuette bei Krems, Niederoesterreich, 1990; idem, Altsteinzeit 
im Osten Oesterreichs, 1993; idem, Zur altsteinzeitlichen 
Besiedlungsgeschichte des Galgenberges von Stratzing/Krems-Rehberg, 
1993.


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