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Re: Ancient Figurine of Voluptuous Woman Is Found
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moss wrote:
Well as one who trogs through the news most days, I read she was a pornographic piece of neckware, that presumably males wore beneath their 'cloaks' on a string, she had'nt got a head but had two rings for attachment....

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090513/full/news.2009.473.html
(that link is respectable)

there again today someone was speculating in the news that homo sapiens polished off the neanderthals by eating them.. mind you he had only found one piece of evidence to support it!....


Handofdave, I've just read your most recent comment which was well argued. When I saw the inital post I was surprised that only one person had answered because it is very interesting.

Moss mentions reading that the figurine was a piece of pornographic neckware, which again seems to throw a very 'last century' approach to the matter. Pornography surely is a modern concept where the human body (usually female, though certainly not exclusively) is exploited for sexual titillation. I can't get my head round 'hunter-gatherer' clans being into pornography somehow.

There is an interesting comment on the link which was not there when I first saw it - worth a read.


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tjj
Posted by tjj
17th May 2009ce
17:57

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