@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com
Post #1576400
2025-02-11 12:28 UTC
Replies (5)
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@grayhead01@universeodon.com 2025-02-11 14:09
@cassana Thank you for your posts on the Dolni Věstonice Venus. Most informative for this ignorant old man.
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@Virginicus@universeodon.com 2025-02-11 17:21
@cassana At least one of them must have been an insulting caricature of somebody in the clan-group. (Based on no knowledge at all)
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@khomus@the-crossroads-inn.com 2025-02-11 17:29
@cassana They're also easily combined, e.g. currency/marriage tokens with an apotropaic/religious/spiritual aspect. But you've sort of covered that I think.
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@khomus@the-crossroads-inn.com 2025-02-11 17:30
@cassana But IMO, things like timespan shouldn't make us lose sight of interpretations like a good solid fad. As evidence? https://www.straightdope.com/21342884/why-is-the-mona-lisa-so-famous
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@pdcawley@mendeddrum.org 2025-11-11 11:35
@cassana It delights me that something so old is still so easy to suggest meanings for. They are mysterious, sure, but not mysterious in the same way as those weird roman dodecahedron things, say, where we know they were reasonably common but have absolutely no idea what they were for, or if they were even for anything. Instead, they seem as if they could have been made yesterday, and any number of plausible explanations spring to mind, because people are still making similar things. To me, they're of a piece with things like Anthony Gormley's work, Henry Moore's figures or folk art stuff like peg dolls. Even without knowing the specific meanings palaeolithic peoples attributed to these figures, their existence (and the fact that i have an emotional reaction to them) tells me that I have at least something in common with those people from millennia ago. I find that comforting.