90 years ago
The Venus of Věstonice is found again
On 13 July 1925, at a Paleolithic archaeological site near Dolní Věstonice in Moravia, in what was once a village of mammoth hunters, an archaeological expedition that began in 1924 led by Karel Absolon, results in the discovery of the Venus of Dolní Věstonice, a terracotta statuette depicting a naked woman with large body forms. According to analysis carried out over the years, the artifact should be between 25,000 and 29,000 year old, and is was discovered along with other relics depicting various animals: bears, lions, mammoths, horses, rhinos etc. The statuette of Venus is currently in Moravské zemské muzeum in Brno and it is the most important archaeological ever discovered in the territory of the Czech Republic. Very rarely is exposed to the public, the Venus also testifies to the antiquity of the techniques of working with clay. With a height of 11 cm and a width of about 4, the statuette is the oldest artifact in this material never found.