Venus of Willendorf or also known as Woman of Willendorf is a statue of a woman about eleven centimeters high and carved out of oolitic limestone and colored by red ochre or chemically speaking iron oxide. It was estimated to be sculpted around twenty two thousand and twenty one thousand before the Common Era. In 1908, archeologist Josef Szombathy discovered this statue in a site near Willendorf which is a village in Lower Austria. This statue was thought to be a sign of fertility. After the Venus of Willendorf was discovered, several other statues that resembled it and many other different tools were found too. All of these provided more information about the Paleolithic period which ranges from thirty thousand to eight thousand before the Common Era. At the same time this statue was made it was also the time where art began to flourish and the domestication of animals began to become more popular. In the Paleolithic era art consisted of patterns on elephant bones, cave paintings, animal carvings, and various kinds of other artwork. The earliest form of art was bracelets, beads, rock art, and ochre which was most likely used as body paint. After markings on rock was discovered by Vincent W. Fallio who interpreted these zig zag lines as an altered state of mind. However, other scholars found that it was instead either doodles or the result of natural progress. The domestication of animals also began to increase throughout this time period. One of the main uses for these animals was for trade and barter. They also used the animal’s manure as fertilizer for their crops. During the Paleolithic age the Venus of Willendorf was created which was useful for research about how our world was back then, art began and then thrived, and also the domestication of animals prospered too.
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