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New information is shedding light on the origins of a 30,000-year-old sculpture.
Venus figurines are small sculptures of female forms that were crafted during the Upper Paleolithic era.
This breakthrough also raises questions about how the sculpture arrived in Austria.
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It is possible that the people carried the piece with them when they moved across the land.
People in the Gravettianthe tool culture of the timelooked for and inhabited favorable locations.
However, the significant distance of almost 1,000 miles makes this scenario more unlikely.
View of Venus of Willendorf from all sides (Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen viaWikimedia Commons,CC BY-SA 4.0)
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