Erotic art for

[Peikko 1,575]

You don't like stories about Burma, or stories about Sri Lanka so what about some erotic art?

After 35,000 years, erotic art for cavemen discovered

With its grotesquely exaggerated features, this could easily be the work of one of the 20th century's great figurative artists. But this voluptuous Venus was carved out of a mammoth's tusk more than 35,000 years ago.

The two-and-a-half-inch statuette was found buried 10 feet below the floor of the Hohle Fels Cave in the Schwabian region of south-west Germany, where archaeologists have already discovered a gallery of early art objects dating to the same period of the Stone Age. Carbon dating has shown that the female figurine predates other similar Venus carvings by about 5,000 years.

"This figurine was produced at least 35,000 calendar years ago, making it one of the oldest known examples of figurative art," said Nicholas Conard of the University of Tubingen, who describes the statuette in Nature. He added that it "radically changes our views of the context and meaning of the earliest Palaeolithic art"...

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Edited May 14, 2009 by Madame Cleo

[Mags 112]

It's more likely to be a fertility goddess.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

It's more likely to be a fertility goddess.

I concur.

[Peikko 1,575]

You don't like the reader hooks either?

[Nagishkaw 510]

Hmmmmm.....

[MichelleN 0]

Well maybe they called them 'fertility goddesses' back in the day. But now we call them 'masturbatory aids'. Different name, same use. ;D

[Chica Yeyé 41]

noobs

[alienlovechild 75]

With its grotesquely exaggerated features, this could easily be the work of one of the 20th century's great figurative artists. But this voluptuous Venus was carved out of a mammoth's tusk more than 35,000 years ago.

Fat chicks were seen as more desirable back then because it denoted maturity and health. Skinny chicks were viewed as less mature and less likely to bear children. Malnourished and sickly women weren't the ideal back then. This is still true in some cultures and may explain some international marriages.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I'm going to hide in my closet with some cave man porn.

[Peikko 1,575]

Rigggggggggght because we know so much about the 'culture' and preferences of 350,000 years ago.

The mind boggles at how you think you know about this stuff Mr Alien, it really does.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Rigggggggggght because we know so much about the 'culture' and preferences of 350,000 years ago.

The mind boggles at how you think you know about this stuff Mr Alien, it really does.

Maybe he read it in a supermarket tabloid?

[alienlovechild 75]

Rigggggggggght because we know so much about the 'culture' and preferences of 350,000 years ago

I must be closer to the truth than you because the article mentions the figurine dating 35,000 years old not 350,000 years old. Do read or understand the stuff you post?

[Peikko 1,575]

Because you can spot a typo that makes you right? Your logic again shows signs of weakness.

[alienlovechild 75]

Because you can spot a typo that makes you right? Your logic again shows signs of weakness.

A numerical typo with a perfectly placed comment isn't a typo-now you're stretching the little credibility you had left.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

How do you lose credibility for a typo. Even if it isn't a typo, it doesn't change the point that was made - that we don't know much about human civilization that far back.

Presumably you do so perhaps you'd mind sharing the source of this knowledge.

Let me guess - Edgar Cayce right?