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Anthropology

Ichingcarpenter

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4. Neither is Barbie....LOL

Reply to Hissyspit (Reply #2)

Mon Feb 24, 2014, 12:21 PM

Feb 2014

Anyway I wanted to take a different turn on this GD debate with a little history,art and science. I have always been fascinated by neolithic culture.

The Documentary is very recent and shows one of these figurines in Turkey that if you see the backside its rather deathly showing her bones whereas the front is atypical of the venus figure.

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Strippers and the objectification of women [View all] Ichingcarpenter Feb 2014 OP

Go Goddess! libodem Feb 2014 #1

The figures should not be taken as literal representations. Hissyspit Feb 2014 #2

Neither is Barbie....LOL Ichingcarpenter Feb 2014 #4

Appreciated. Another BBC documentary (a year and a half before Hohle Fels discovery): Hissyspit Feb 2014 #5

A good BBC documentary Ichingcarpenter Feb 2014 #8

The Venus Figurines are beautiful, but you are soooo in trouble for the Autumn Feb 2014 #3

If Venus really was a goddess, she would be at her most powerful today with all the worship she gets Exultant Democracy Feb 2014 #6

Good stuff. Thanks for posting. nt rrneck Feb 2014 #7

you are welcome Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2014 #9

Yes indeed. I like the idea of an undenigrated female force in life Sarah Ibarruri Feb 2014 #10

Great post ismnotwasm Feb 2014 #11