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The Venus figurines of Petersfels are several small female statuettes from the Upper Paleolithic era, carved from

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. The tallest figurine is called the Venus of Engen. The figurines were discovered in the Petersfels caves near Engen,

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, excavated in 1927–1932 by Eduard Peters und Volker Toepfer and then in 1974–1976 and 1978 by Gerd Albrecht.See Delporte (1979), S. 129; Müller-Beck & Albrecht (1987), S. 104. They stand between 1.5 and 4 cm tall and are about 15,000 to 11,500 years old, created during the

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era. They are housed in the Museums of Freiburg im Breisgau and Engen.

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* Karl Dietrich Adam, Renate Kurz: ''Eiszeitkunst im süddeutschen Raum''. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1980, . * Archäologisches Landesmuseum Konstanz (Hrsg.): ''Eiszeit: Kunst und Kultur''. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2009, . *

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: ''L’image de la femme dans l’art préhistorique''. Ed. Picard, Paris 1979, . *

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: ''Die Venus der Eiszeit. Entdeckung und Erforschung der altsteinzeitlichen Kunst''. Prisma-Verlag, Leipzig 1967. * Alexander Marshack: ''The Roots of Civilization: the Cognitive Beginning of Man’s First Art, Symbol and Notation''. McGraw-Hill, New York 1972, . * Hansjürgen Müller-Beck, Gerd Albrecht (Hrsg.): ''Die Anfänge der Kunst vor 30000 Jahren''. Theiss, Stuttgart 1987, . * Verena Nübling. ''Die Venusstatuetten vom Petersfels.'' Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg, Nachrichtenblatt des Landesdenkmalamtes, (3), S. 129-130, 1999. ISSN 0342-0027

* Eduard Peters: ''Die altsteinzeitliche Kulturstätte Petersfels''. Filser, Augsburg 1930.

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