@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com
Post #892928
2025-02-11 12:28 UTC
Venus figurines are a cultural or religious mystery from the upper #palaeolithic. There are countless interpretations, so I wanted to explore and consider things from my POV as an ethnomusicologist with specialisms in cultural exchange and migration, who also loves #history and experimental #Archaeology. Photo: reconstruction Venus of Dolní Věstonice (see alt text for more info). #Anthropology #Prehistory… (1/12)
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@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com 2025-02-11 12:28
We have 200+ known figurines exhibiting the thematic emphasised breasts, hips, sometimes vulva, with a fair majority seeming obese, pregnant or post-pregnancy, made from ivory, antler, bone, stone and clay, found across a huge area from the Pyrenees to South Siberia (around 7,500km), and dated from roughly 14,000 to 38,000 BP, that's a staggering 24,000 year period of anatomically modern human history across various Eurasian cultural eras. (2/12)
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@jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu 2026-03-31 14:55
@Cassana 🍻 in later periods, the magdalenien there are also more abstract figurines or scratched into stone