Venus of Willendorf
art material performance
material culture
object
major
Lifetime Path
planned
Creators
- Upper Paleolithic maker unknown, maker
Canon Rationale
A major prehistoric object, included for Paleolithic figurative sculpture, archaeological interpretation, naming history, and the limits of projecting modern categories onto prehistoric objects.
Path
Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 93.
Evidence
- museum record: Natural History Museum Vienna research and object context for the Venus of Willendorf.
- field survey: Smarthistory, 'Nude woman (Venus of Willendorf)'.
Audit Flags
attribution context required, contested dating, museum record bias
Sensitivity Flags
display context distorting, museum record bias
Completion unit: study the object with archaeological, naming, and interpretation context. The title is conventional and should be handled critically.