Specimens
Venus of Hohle Fels
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- Site:
- Hohle Fels
- Lat/Long:
- 48.37, 9.75
- Date min:
- 35,000 Bp
- Date max:
- 40,000 Bp
- Classifications:
- Cro-Magnons
- Time periods:
- Tarantian, Pleistocene
- Cultures:
- Aurignacian
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The Venus of Hohle Fels (also known as the Venus of Schelklingen; in German variously Venus vom Hohlen Fels, vom Hohle Fels; Venus von Schelklingen) is an Upper Paleolithic Venus figurine made of mammoth ivory that was unearthed in 2008 in Hohle Fels, a cave near Schelklingen, Germany. It is dated to between 40,000 and 35,000 years ago, belonging to the early Aurignacian, at the very beginning of the Upper Paleolithic, which is associated with the earliest presence of Cro-Magnon in Europe.
The figure is the oldest undisputed example of a depiction of a human being. In terms of figurative art only the lion-headed, zoomorphic Löwenmensch figurine is older. The Venus figurine is housed at the Prehistoric Museum of Blaubeuren (Urgeschichtliches Museum Blaubeuren).