The secret story of the Venus of Willendorf

  by Alexander Binsteiner

Riverbanks of the Danube Willendorf where the Venus was found

Microscopic investigations on the world famous statuette from the Gravettian period (30,000 to 22,000 years ago) carried out at the Natural History Museum in Vienna revealed three incredible insights, and when taken together tell a secret story of this Palaeolithic figurine and her creators.

• The limestone from which the 11cm high Venus had been carved, comes almost certainly from the region around the Moravian city of Brno 136km to the northeast of Willendorf.
  
• The source of the flint blades discovered with the figure was North Moravia, a further 150km to the north.
• The Venus had once been completely painted with red ochre, and given the ritualistic associations of this material meant that the figure was more than likely a cultic object.

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