Identify the 'Venus of Willendorf'. What does it suggest that the beginnings of art and the domestication of animals happen during the same period in human history?
Venus of Willendorf is the most famous ancient image of a woman, and was found in 1908 by Josef Szombathy in Austria. The date that this image was said to be created was about 24,000-22,000 BC. They were able to determine it was created this far back because of all of the layers of deposit on it. Venus of Willendorf is said to be an icon of prehistoric art. She became the "first woman," being built up to be an Eve-like figure to the world. The statue is a little over 4 inches tall, and is said to be held at Vienna's Naturhistorisches Museum. Venus of Willendorf was originally nicknamed la poire, meaning pear, because of the shape of the body. Because of this figure being the first Palaeolithic statue of a woman, all other art statues from this era are said to be "Venus" as a collective term for all of these figures. This sculpture showing what real women looked like at this time in life may have lead scientists to create an idea of what the animals looked like, which could make it easier to study the domestication of animals. Scientists could use this image of this woman as an idea of the domestication of animals because animals and humans are both mammals and they share a lot of the same characteristics. This images makes it somewhat easier to study the domestication of animals, and it could possibly suggest that the beginnings of art and domestication of animals happened during the same Palaeolithic period.
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