May 15 2009Oldest Human Sculpture Found In Germany

What you're looking at is believed to be the oldest sculpture of a human found to date, and was carved out of a mammoth's tusk. That's right, mammoth -- the very same mount Jesus used to ride into battle. Wow!
The distorted object, which portrays a woman with huge breasts, big buttocks and exaggerated genitals, is thought to be at least 35,000 years old.
The 6cm-tall figurine, reported in the journal Nature, is the latest find to come from Hohle Fels Cave in Germany."I think there are good reasons to emphasise sexual interpretations, but we really don't know whether it is coming from a more male or a more female perspective. We don't know very much about how the artefact was used."
Oh man, those cave people were a classy bunch, were they not? They so were. And such the artisans. But seriously, is that really the way women used to look back then? Because, if so, BBW AND mammoths? *firing up time machine* Somebody smells a threesome!
Hit the jump for another picture with more angles.

German 'Venus' may be oldest yet [bbcnews]
Thanks to b00geyman, coprohead and junkyard dog, who are all into older women.

Reader Comments
1. Chuck Nunchuck - May 15, 2009 9:26 AM
I'm pretty sure this is KFC's new grilled chicken. Oprah's behind this!
2. tcell - May 15, 2009 9:28 AM
didnt antonio banderas find that thing in the 13th warrior?
3. jose arcadio bundia - May 15, 2009 9:28 AM
@1 .. u should have wrote "first"
4. Mesarim - May 15, 2009 9:31 AM
I've seen similar ones to these before in some of museums in France... and Italy... but if this is the oldest one.. the others must be COPIES!!!! Antique pirating!
5. turtoise - May 15, 2009 9:31 AM
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6. turtoise - May 15, 2009 9:32 AM
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7. no - May 15, 2009 9:34 AM
shut up jose - you should have wrote "jose is a loser" - you firstie fag. and stop appropriating g.g. marquez's characters, you cant even spell them correctly - you should be reading cat in the hat.
8. STOMPY - May 15, 2009 9:37 AM
I think i see a mammoth toe... or a blue whale tale...
9. handsome arron - May 15, 2009 9:41 AM
wow - I had a venus of willendorf replica - must now get a venus of Hohle Fels Cave replica - it makes the ladies cream
10. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - May 15, 2009 9:51 AM
Neat.
11. BK - May 15, 2009 9:52 AM
What the article doesn't explain is how the sculpture lost its arm when a giant stone door closed on it while it was handing a key to a priest.
It also doesn't explain cave women's tiny heads and emo tendencies of cutting ones self.
12. squeehunter - May 15, 2009 9:55 AM
Ha but I thought the world was only 6000 years old! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0OOL!1111
13. martygras9 - May 15, 2009 9:56 AM
I see no difference between this interpretation of the female body and Jessica Rabbit's.
14. hulkinggorgon - May 15, 2009 9:57 AM
looks like the mummy chickens are back!!!!!!
15. Timbo - May 15, 2009 10:01 AM
@3 no... you don't write "first"...that's stupid and gay and stupid and retarded....
That's one fugly sculpture
16. Daisy - May 15, 2009 10:02 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where Max propped a chicken up on a beer can on the grill. He put on the TV and fell asleep, and then forgot it was out there, and when he retrieved the chicken a week later it looked like a petrified mummified chicken.
17. Jim - May 15, 2009 10:40 AM
Damn... prehistoric bitches had big titties!
18. Yer Mama - May 15, 2009 10:48 AM
Looks like a chicken with extra chest meat! LOLZ
19. Weed - May 15, 2009 11:10 AM
that Vagina is GINORMOUS!!!
She must have been having sex with a mammoth
20. Darth - May 15, 2009 11:12 AM
Different beauty standards 35,000 years ago! Where they cannibals?
21. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - May 15, 2009 11:13 AM
This was more likely a representation of a "Mother" or "Mother Earth" type diety. The ancient cultures had a tendency to make those figures BBW style to reflect the nature of motherhood. Large breasts to feed many children, rotund figure due to plentiful food, exaggerated sexual characteristics that are easily identified as female. It is less an example of the "perfect" female representation and more an example of the respect/worship to the earth and the mother figure though to have birthed it.
~end geeky historical rhetoric here.
22. beefytee - May 15, 2009 11:17 AM
I had no idea Kim Kardashian was that old.
23. Nero - May 15, 2009 11:19 AM
Could this be a fossellized blow-up doll?
24. Pew³ - May 15, 2009 11:21 AM
Licence and registration...
Chicken Füċker!! BaGawk!!
25. STOMPY - May 15, 2009 11:24 AM
@$.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q
You clearly haven't been drinking enough this morning, ... I'd hate to play you in balderdash!
26. STOMPY - May 15, 2009 11:24 AM
@$.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q
You clearly haven't been drinking enough this morning, ... I'd hate to play you in balderdash!
27. STOMPY - May 15, 2009 11:25 AM
wow, there is an echo in here...
28. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - May 15, 2009 11:28 AM
26 - I'd love to be drinking right now, and smoking. But I'm trying to quit smoking (started Monday) and drinking makes me have super-cravings for nicotine. I'd also love to not be at work =( I'm in a shopping/reading/anything but working mood... Alas, my checking account is in a "give me money" mood. So I'm stuck.
29. Redgoat - May 15, 2009 11:35 AM
Don't you spell "artefact" with an i like "artifact"?
30. Pew³ - May 15, 2009 11:36 AM
@28. Thumper. I know nicotine is addictive, but if only only started smoking Monday, it should be a pretty easy habit to kick!
Good luck with that!!!
31. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - May 15, 2009 11:40 AM
30 - Ba-DumTSH!
Actually, I started smoking about 12 years ago... this is no fun!! Thx!
32. Clamdigger - May 15, 2009 11:41 AM
Could this be the first Barbie.....or just Pam Andersons great great great great great great grat grat grandmother? ( The last 2 greats are before the letter E was invented no correction needed, thanks anyway) I think this is the work of head shrinkers and zombies.
33. STOMPY - May 15, 2009 11:44 AM
@30
nice one!
34. Clamdigger - May 15, 2009 11:47 AM
@31 A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper lit on one end... and a fool on the other end.
35. BK - May 15, 2009 12:04 PM
Hey Thumper, if you want to quit smoking cigarettes....start smoking Black & Milds. That's what I did. They make you look cool (still), the smell brings back memories of grandpa, and they're easier to fill with weed.
36. cranktrain - May 15, 2009 12:05 PM
This just proves guys are pervs, since, like, forever. 'cause you know it's a spank-aid. OO-OO-OO-OO-OO (46mph, 48mph, 49mph, 49mph, 52mph)
37. huh? - May 15, 2009 12:33 PM
More like canned chicken
38. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - May 15, 2009 12:37 PM
BK - that has got to be the dumbest thing I've heard all week. And I work in customer service...
39. Red - May 15, 2009 12:44 PM
@38, I agree.
After all, post 35 is just a bunch of text typed into a white box with a mouth-breathing moron at the end of it.
40. scurl - May 15, 2009 12:49 PM
this reminds me of when i show people my appendectomy scar.
@38 - i used to work customer service (well, different name but same thing) at microsoft back in the win98se days. i heard some really fantastically stupid people some some amazing things, but my favorite is the guy who threatened to kill bill gates at his country club. i still think i was in the right not to alert security. i think that's why they fired me.
41. Yeah baby! - May 15, 2009 12:52 PM
BBW and boobs. Nice boobs. Boobs, people!
42. BK - May 15, 2009 12:54 PM
Thumper - ...AND you read Geekologie all day.
I should be honored...
I am.
And @ 19, my friend, the truth is that evolution has taken many amazing things away from man. Like the ability to breath under water......and giant genitals. Men and women's.
43. Clamdigger - May 15, 2009 1:03 PM
@35 Please stop smoking and use the money on serilization.
44. STOMPY - May 15, 2009 1:06 PM
@43
ohhh burn, what a crappy time to eff up the spelling of a word... loser
45. quake - May 15, 2009 1:08 PM
..looks like a baked turkey to me.
46. STOMPY - May 15, 2009 1:08 PM
@43
disregard loser part, thought you were ragging on anyone who chooses to smoke but you were just raggin on dbag BK... Flame on!!
47. GCS - May 15, 2009 1:13 PM
@1 - Definitely wins the prize for best first comment ever.
48. BK - May 15, 2009 1:31 PM
Since you asked so nicely, 43, I'll work a little harder on that. Other than toking to lower the sperm count already... I'm definitely aware of the overpopulation problem, though.
*sporting tighty-whities*
And STOMPY, a "dbag" is a hygienic product... I'll take that as a compliment.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh! Burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrn!
49. make_it_simple - May 15, 2009 1:34 PM
Was that porn before the information age?
50. AtomicCoffee - May 15, 2009 1:51 PM
"I vill call zis piece, 'Hitler's Testicles'!"
51. naas - May 15, 2009 2:10 PM
funny comments are great, more free entertainment
52. Dan Halen - May 15, 2009 2:12 PM
Oh my...the interpretation was all wrong. This is actually a carving of a male screwing a giant bug-eyed trilobite. The anthropolgical discovery here is that, since the dawn of man, we'd screw anything with legs, no matter how many.
53. Clamdigger - May 15, 2009 2:20 PM
BK Keep on toking you are (still) so cool with your Black & Milds. That toking comment to lower the sperm count is a little freaky. Reminds me of the joke:" Why do dogs lick their balls?"........... "Because they can". Glad to see you are working harder on the sperm count lowering. Breath mints might help, if you every break away for your cool self.
54. Clamdigger - May 15, 2009 2:39 PM
BK @ 42 you are an idiot and your comment to 19 proves it...... I must have missed the finding of the gilled man, and the 4 ft man with the 3 ft penis. What f*****g color is the sky in your world? Dude smoke on....do you find ashes on your pillow in the morning?
55. WACOMalt - May 15, 2009 2:52 PM
looks like a turkey...
56. BK - May 15, 2009 2:59 PM
For someone named "Clamdigger" you sure take things seriously......
Do you find tears on your pillow in the morning?
I bet the sky is always gray in your world..........
I also bet that a caveman could lick his balls!!! His GIANT balls!!! AFTER evolving from the sea, of course.
57. Watch-303 - May 15, 2009 4:19 PM
interesting
58. Topgun - May 15, 2009 5:31 PM
Doesn't that look just like the carving that Dwight says Moes carved on the office? The Ep. when Ryan was getting hazed.
59. Aids - May 15, 2009 7:34 PM
so the oldest human was jaba the hut
hmm.....
http://std-aids.mybrute.com
60. Harrison - May 16, 2009 4:40 AM
@12. squeehunter Did you really Lol??
I find it amazing that you can't be more open to other theories, when that is all there is.
At least the book that came up with my theory is PROVEN well over 1000 years old. Darwin made his in the 1800's. You know that you may as well follow Joseph Smith or Tom Cruise. Their theories are even more current. Good luck to you.
61. Harrison - May 16, 2009 4:48 AM
@ 31. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q -
and for you... read a book called "the Easy Way" to stop smoking. It won't be hard. Don't put up with crap from people who never smoked. (although your post did make is sound like you started smoking on monday which would deserve some smack talk)
62. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - May 16, 2009 8:23 AM
Damn I need a cigarette!
This is no statue. It's a fossilized mastodon turd.
63. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - May 16, 2009 8:26 AM
@60
Just because your book is old doesn't make it correct. Take your Ben Stein loving idiocy somewhere else.
64. Harrison - May 16, 2009 3:23 PM
@63
You know what a theory is right? Did you know that a "theory" isn't automatically correct? How can anybody make their own decicions if people like you won't let them be heard? I have listened to both sides.
Just because I told you which one I believe in doesn't mean that you have to... but nevermind, just plug your ears and run away... I know it's scary for some people.
The point is, that I (I meaning me, not you, so chill) think that thing is not more than 6000 years old. Nobody can verify either side so you must choose. But choose wisely.
65. OneMoreGadget - May 16, 2009 4:27 PM
Um yah. Sorry to tell yah but that's not a person, that a turkey with a vagina.
66. Michael - May 16, 2009 6:49 PM
I think it looks more like a Foster Farms chicken, as opposed to those other "saline plumped" chickens you see on television. But seriously..as an artist- I look at this, and see a gutted, de-feathered chicken.
67. OLD - May 17, 2009 11:56 AM
Come on guys, this is OLD
..
68. Kira - May 17, 2009 4:14 PM
Shit looks more like a turkey to me.
69. Clamdigger - May 18, 2009 1:28 PM
For someone named BK I hate your burgers.....or that could stand for baked knowledge. (inhales deeply....cough, cough.....followed licking sounds BIG licking sounds )
Dude you were so close.......... wrong stop try SMOKEOLOGY.... after you dry off from your sea evolution of course.
70. Nope - May 18, 2009 6:36 PM
"That's right, mammoth -- the very same mount Jesus used to ride into battle. Wow!"
OMG i LOLED like crazy when I read DAT!
71. Mr. Wowbam - May 21, 2009 9:39 PM
Wow, I really didn't know that everyone back in those really old days were FA's... It's hilarious.