It was ploughed up in 1930 by farmer Štefan Hulman-Petrech near the village of Moravany nad Váhom in Slovakia.

A copy of this Venus currently resides in the Bratislava Castle exposition of the Slovak National Museum.

Despite considerable diversity in opinion amongst archeologists and in paleoanthropological literature as to the function and significance of the figures,[3] the name arises from the assumption that the figurines represent an ancient ideal of beauty.

This perception is said to have derived from the fact that attention is directed to certain features common to most of the figurines, particularly emotionally charged primary and secondary sexual characteristics such as the breasts, stomachs and buttocks.

As a result, critics, such as Vandewettering, have highlighted that this could be a reflection of Androcentric interpretations of the Venus figurines that, she suggests, were the starting point for archaeological understandings.