Dolní Věstonice

American

[dawl-nyee vye-staw-nyi-tse] / ˈdɔl nyi ˈvyɛ stɔ nyɪ tsɛ /

noun

a camping site of Upper Paleolithic mammoth hunters c23,000 b.c. in southern Moravia, Czech Republic, characterized chiefly by Venus figures, ornaments of mammoth ivory, and animal figures of baked clay.

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The woman's portrait head from Moravia was excavated in the 1920s in Dolní Věstonice, a valley frequented in the Ice Age by mammoth and reindeer and other huntable beasts travelling between the Polish plains and the Danube valley.

From The Guardian

AN: They are incredibly varied beyond the few figurines seen over and over again: the Venus of Hohle Fels, the Venus of Willendorf, and the Venus of Dolní Věstonice.

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