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Venus figurines of Petersfels
From the left: Venus figurine from Petersfels, reproduction (The so-called Venus of Engen), beetle and two further female figurines from Petersfels; Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
MaterialJet
Created15,000 to 11,500 years
Discovered1908
Engen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

The Venus figurines of Petersfels are several small female statuettes from the Upper Paleolithic era, carved from jet lignite. The tallest figurine is called the Venus of Engen. The figurines were discovered in the Petersfels caves near Engen, Baden-Württemberg, excavated in 1927–1932 by Eduard Peters und Volker Toepfer and then in 1974–1976 and 1978 by Gerd Albrecht. They stand between 1.5 and 4 cm tall and are about 15,000 to 11,500 years old, created during the Magdalenian era. They are housed in the Museums of Freiburg im Breisgau and Engen.

See also

Bibliography

  • Karl Dietrich Adam, Renate Kurz: Eiszeitkunst im süddeutschen Raum. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-8062-0241-9.
  • Archäologisches Landesmuseum Konstanz (Hrsg.): Eiszeit: Kunst und Kultur. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-0833-9.
  • Henri Delporte: L’image de la femme dans l’art préhistorique. Ed. Picard, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-7084-0034-7.
  • Rudolf Drößler: Die Venus der Eiszeit. Entdeckung und Erforschung der altsteinzeitlichen Kunst. Prisma-Verlag, Leipzig 1967.
  • Alexander Marshack: The Roots of Civilization: the Cognitive Beginning of Man’s First Art, Symbol and Notation. McGraw-Hill, New York 1972, ISBN 0-07-040535-2.
  • Hansjürgen Müller-Beck, Gerd Albrecht (Hrsg.): Die Anfänge der Kunst vor 30000 Jahren. Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0508-6.
  • Verena Nübling. Die Venusstatuetten vom Petersfels. Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg, Nachrichtenblatt des Landesdenkmalamtes, (3), S. 129-130, 1999. ISSN 0342-0027.
  • Eduard Peters: Die altsteinzeitliche Kulturstätte Petersfels. Filser, Augsburg 1930.

References

  1. "Venus von Engen, Foto Museum | Einzigartige Museen in Deutschland". einzigartige-museen.de. Archived from the original on 2017-03-26. Retrieved 2017-03-26.
  2. See Delporte (1979), S. 129; Müller-Beck & Albrecht (1987), S. 104.

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Venus figurines in prehistoric art
Acheulean
(disputed)
Aurignacian
Gravettian
Magdalenian
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