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Woman Of Willendorf

The Woman of Willendorf was discovered in 1908 by the archaeologist Josef Szombathy. The sculpture is one of the greatest findings in art history and is considered a significant symbol of what we know about beauty from the past. The Woman of Willendorf was found in an Aurignacian loess deposit in a terrace about 30 meters above the Danube River (Witcombe 1). She was originally named the Venus of Willendorf because it was first suggested that the sculpture was a "Venus figure" or "Goddess," used as a symbol of fertility. Author Marilyn Stokstad indicates this “distortion” was made “by the names early scholars gave to the hundreds of small prehistoric statues of women they found. They...

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