Terracotta female figurine “The Venus of Dolni Vestonice”. Upper Paleolithic period, Pavlovian culture, ca. 29,000 – 26,000 BP. Found in 1925 in Dolní Věstonice, Moravia, Czech Republic. Height: 11.5 cm, Width: 4.3 cm, Thick. : 2.8 cm. Moravské zemské muzeum, Brno, Czech Republic. (3250×4000)
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Terracotta nude female figurine “The Venus of Dolni Vestonice”
Upper Paleolithic period, Pavlovian culture, ca. 29,000 – 26,000 BP
Found in 1925 (in two pieces) in Dolní Věstonice, Moravia, Czech Republic.
Height: 11.5 cm, Width : 4.3 cm, Thick.: 2.8 cm
Moravské zemské muzeum, Brno, Czech Republic.
Sources: Ice Age art: arrival of the modern mind by Jill Cook, The British Museum Press, 2013.
Photo: Moravské muzeum
[https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4052/the-shock-of-the-old](https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4052/the-shock-of-the-old)
[https://www.donsmaps.com/dolnivenus.html](https://www.donsmaps.com/dolnivenus.html)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Doln%C3%AD_V%C4%9Bstonice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Doln%C3%AD_V%C4%9Bstonice)
[https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/sculpture/dolni_vestonice_figurine.php](https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/sculpture/dolni_vestonice_figurine.php)
It has a bit of similarities with [this “family”](http://www.istorie-pe-scurt.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Ganditorul-de-la-Hamangia.jpg) from Romania, especially the woman hips, but our guys are way younger. Only 9 or 8 thousand years.