It is a sensational find: Scientists in Tubingen Alb-Donau-Kreis, the oldest previously known putative human figure in the world. The ivory-carved mammoth woman with oversized breasts and a much enlarged vulva is from the Ice Age.

The ivory-carved mammoth woman with oversized breasts and a vulva was strongly increased at least 35,000 years old, archaeologist Nicholas Conard writes in the journal "Nature" (Thursday). The fund was a sensation and raised an entirely new light on the origins of art in Europe and probably around the world.

The only six inches wide figure was in September 2008 during excavations in the cave "Hole Fels in Schelklingen found. In the past week, had initial reports of the Fund where. Now details have been announced.

The so-called "Venus" was in six fragments of about 20 meters from the cave entrance away. Up on the left arm and shoulder is the figure in full. This is an extremely rare piece of luck when the excavations of ivory-Art on the Swabian Alb. Conard also have hopes that the missing fragments still to be found: The "Venus" had quite the edge of the last year worked excavation zone. There is therefore the chance of the missing fragments still to be found.

The figure is extremely detailed carved. Strikingly, the extreme emphasis on the sex organs, while the face, arms and legs barely worked out and presented were drastically reduced. It is with great certainty to an artistic expression of fertility. The display limit by today's standards of pornography, Mr Paul writes Conard Mellar in "Nature".

The "Venus" from the cave "Cave Rock" now shows that people much earlier than previously thought - at least 35,000 years ago - with the representation of human body has had.

On the Swabian Alb were in the past 100 years around 25 ivory carvings found, including the world's oldest musical instrument. Conard believes it is perfectly possible that the culture Schwabenland the first people in the world, and both the music as well as the figurative arts have invented. Maybe religions are even on the Alb emerged.