riotemmi18
January 9th, 2009, 01:42 PM
I can't find this posted anywhere else on the forum, and it's not insanely current news, but still really interesting....
(CNN) -- Archaeologists in Russia have discovered an "extraordinary" group of Stone Age artworks which appear to have been carefully buried in pits and covered with mammoth bones, researchers announced this week in a paper published in the academic journal, Antiquity...At least some of the 21,000-22,000-year-old objects appear to have been regarded as magical, the scientists surmise.
From here (http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/12/03/stoneage.art/)
The interesting part is that they include the "Venus" figures along with the items regarded as magical, due to their placement, the surrounding objects, the geometric shapes around the figures, and the differently colored sand sprinkled around them.
I thought it was a good piece of evidence that the Venus figures were used for ritualized purposes, rather than the porn theory I keep hearing about (which gets less and less credible).
(CNN) -- Archaeologists in Russia have discovered an "extraordinary" group of Stone Age artworks which appear to have been carefully buried in pits and covered with mammoth bones, researchers announced this week in a paper published in the academic journal, Antiquity...At least some of the 21,000-22,000-year-old objects appear to have been regarded as magical, the scientists surmise.
From here (http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/12/03/stoneage.art/)
The interesting part is that they include the "Venus" figures along with the items regarded as magical, due to their placement, the surrounding objects, the geometric shapes around the figures, and the differently colored sand sprinkled around them.
I thought it was a good piece of evidence that the Venus figures were used for ritualized purposes, rather than the porn theory I keep hearing about (which gets less and less credible).