Venus of Petřkovice
The Venus of Petřkovice ( or "Landecká venuše") is a pre-historic Venus figurine, a mineral statuette of a nude female figure, dated to about 23,000 BCE (Gravettian industry) in what is today the Czech Republic. Discovery. It was found within the current city limits of Ostrava (Ostrava-Petřkovice), Silesia, in the Czech Republic, by archaeologist Bohuslav Klíma on 14 July 1953. It was beneath a mammoth molar at an ancient settlement of mammoth hunters. Many stone artifacts and skeletal fragments were also found nearby. Features. The statue measures 4.5 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm and is a  headless torso of a woman carved from iron ore (hematite). Uniquely, the absence of the head appears to be the author's intention. Also, unlike other prehistoric Venus figurines, it shows a slender young woman or girl with small breasts. Location. It is now in the Archeological Institute, Brno, but between 7 February - 26 May 2013 it was displayed in the exhibition "Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind", at the British Museum in London.