Origin of the 30,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf discovered
The almost 11-cm-high Venus figurine from Willendorf (Austria) is one of the most important examples of early art in Europe. It is made of a rock called oolite that is not found in or around Willendorf. A research team led by the anthropologist Gerhard Weber from the University of Vienna and the two geologists Alexander Lukeneder and Mathias Harzhauser as well as the prehistorian Walpurga Antl-Weiser from the Natural History Museum Vienna have now found out with the help of high-resolution tomographic images that the material from which the Venus was carved likely comes from northern Italy.
This sheds new light on the remarkable mobility of the first modern humans south and north of the Alps. The results currently appear in Scientific Reports. Read more.
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Pablo Picasso playing the trumpet.
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Children looking at a picture-card show (Tokyo 1953)
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ayuko akiyama’s konchuu kagyou || 秋山亜由子の『こんちゅう稼業』
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Kate Bush washing the dishes, 1978.
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The Origin of Touch (Teri’s Hands)
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The Temple of the Warriors and the Orion Constellation. Chichen Itza, Yucatan.
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Old Japanese movie posters found in an underpass near Yūrakuchō Station, Tokyo
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