Tinted with red ochre and about four and a half inches tall, its top portion features a gridded cap and it appears much larger due to the exaggerated roundness of its hips, breasts, and thighs. Found by Josef Szombathy, who unearthed it during railway construction on the Donau river in 1908, its emphasis on the pubis, and reduction of body parts like the arms and head, have supported historical arguments about the high status accorded the obese in a hunter-gatherer society and that it served as a fertility figure. For 1
Tinted with red ochre and about four and a half inches tall, its top portion features a gridded cap and it appears much larger due to the exaggerated roundness of its hips, breasts, and thighs. Found by Josef Szombathy, who unearthed it during railway construction on the Donau river in 1908, its emphasis on the pubis, and reduction of body parts like the arms and head, have supported historical arguments about the high status accorded the obese in a hunter-gatherer society and that it served as a fertility figure. For 10 points, identify this limestone sculpture, one of the oldest manmade artifacts known to man, which is commonly called by a name that references the classical goddess of love.
Tinted with red ochre and about four and a half inches tall, its top portion features a gridded cap and it appears much larger due to the exaggerated roundness of its hips, breasts, and thighs.
{Woman} from {Willendorf} or {Venus} of {Willendorf}