Editing History of Austria (section)

=== Paleolithic ===
[[File:Venus von Willendorf 02.jpg|thumb|200px|The [[Venus of Willendorf]], {{Circa}} 25,000 BC. [[Naturhistorisches Museum]], Vienna.]]
The Alps were inaccessible during the [[Last Glacial Period|Ice Age]], so human habitation dates no earlier than the [[Middle Paleolithic]] era, during the time of the [[Neanderthals]]. The oldest traces of human habitation in Austria, more than 250,000 years ago, were found in the Repolust Cave at Badl, near [[Peggau]] in the [[Graz-Umgebung]] district of [[Styria]]. These include stone tools, bone tools, and pottery fragments together with mammalian remains. Some 70,000-year-old evidence was found in the Gudenus Cave in northwestern Lower Austria.

[[Upper Paleolithic]] remains are more numerous in Lower Austria. The best known are in the [[Wachau]] region, including the sites of the two oldest pieces of art in Austria. These are figurative representations of women, the [[Venus of Galgenberg]] found near [[Stratzing]] and thought to be 32,000 years old, and the nearby [[Venus of Willendorf]] (26,000 years old) found at [[Willendorf in der Wachau|Willendorf]], near [[Krems an der Donau]]. In 2005 in the same area, a double infant burial site was discovered at Krems-Wachtberg, dating from [[Gravettian]] culture (27,000 years old), the oldest burial ground found in Austria to date.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=27 September 2005 |title=Ice age 'twins' found in ancient burial ground |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8063-ice-age-twins-found-in-ancient-burial-ground.html |journal=New Scientist}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Einwögerer |first1=Thomas |last2=Friesinger |first2=Herwig |last3=Händel |first3=Marc |last4=Neugebauer-Maresch |first4=Christine |last5=Simon |first5=Ulrich |last6=Teschler-Nicola |first6=Maria |date=2006 |title=Upper Palaeolithic infant burials |journal=Nature |volume=444 |issue=7117 |bibcode=2006Natur.444..285E |doi=10.1038/444285a |pmid=17108949 |s2cid=1701244 |doi-access=free |pages=285}}</ref>