{"id":123,"date":"2013-10-08T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/?p=123"},"modified":"2013-10-15T21:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T21:52:07","slug":"female-figurine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/coverage\/global\/female-figurine\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Figurine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Vienna_-_Willendorf_Venus_Natural_History_Museum_-_6190.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-150\" alt=\"Willendorf Venus Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria.  \u00a9 Jorge Royan \/ http:\/\/www.royan.com.ar. CC-BY-SA-3.0 \" src=\"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk1_Venus_CC-SA-BY-30-202x300.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk1_Venus_CC-SA-BY-30-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/files\/2013\/10\/WT_Wk1_Venus_CC-SA-BY-30.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willendorf Venus Natural History Museum, Vienna, Austria.<br \/>\u00a9 Jorge Royan \/ http:\/\/www.royan.com.ar. CC-BY-SA-3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Euphemistically termed &#8220;Venus&#8221; figurines by coy 19th-century male authors, sculptures of women are prominent in the Eurasian archaeological record between 40,000 and 13,000 years ago.\u00a0 We shall focus particularly on the famous figurine from Willendorf (Austria), and set her into her wider social context.\u00a0 What purposes did such figurines serve, and what do they tell us about organisation of late Palaeolithic society?\u00a0 How widespread and consistent in form were they?\u00a0 We shall also explore the impact these female figurines have also exerted on modern culture since their rediscovery over the last 150 years.<\/p>\n<h2>Reading<\/h2>\n<p>British Museum 2013: Ice Age Art &#8212; The Arrival of the Modern Mind.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/whats_on\/exhibitions\/ice_age_art.aspx\">http:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/whats_on\/exhibitions\/ice_age_art.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gamble, C. 1982.\u00a0 Interaction and alliance in Palaeolithic society,\u00a0 <i>Man<\/i> 17: 92-107<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Euphemistically termed &#8220;Venus&#8221; figurines by coy 19th-century male authors, sculptures of women are prominent in the Eurasian archaeological record between 40,000 and 13,000 years ago.\u00a0 We shall focus particularly on the famous figurine from Willendorf (Austria), and set her into her wider social context.\u00a0 What purposes did such figurines serve, and what do they tell us about organisation of late &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88041,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[528801,146326,526930,527563,536536,543581,532795],"tags":[120842,547934,547617,546982,547321,546636,546837],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-15000-years-ago","category-global","category-lecture-3","category-making-us-human","category-music-and-desire","category-object","category-william-davies","tag-body","tag-desire","tag-eurasian","tag-female","tag-figurine","tag-venus","tag-willendorf","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/wonderful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}