Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Statues known as 'Venus figurines' and 'mother goddesses' have a long history going all the way back to the Palaeolithic. Is there a possible connection between the very oldest statues and those that appeared during the Neolithic? Or are we looking at something more archetypal?

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Venus of Willendorf, credit: Jakub Hałun

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