Venus of Wellendorf replica artifact

The Venus of Willendorf is an 11.1-centimetre-tall (4.4 in)m Venus figurine estimated to have been made 30,000 years ago. It was found on August 7, 1908, by a workman named Johann Veran during archaeological excavations at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the town of Krems. It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre. The figurine is now in the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. The figure is believed to have been carved during the European Upper Paleolithic, or "Old Stone Age", a period of prehistory starting around 30,000 years ago. A wide variety of dates have been proposed. In a 2009 reexamination of the stratigraphy at the site, researchers estimated that the age of the archaeological layer in which the figurine was found is about 30,000 years ago. Similar sculptures, first discovered in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, are traditionally referred to in archaeology as "Ve