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Some #SundayArchaeology #Paleolithic haute couture:
These ab. 25-30k y/o so-called #Venus figurines have been discussed a lot as religious, health & fertility symbols, & mother goddesses.
But some of them offer s glimpse at another interesting, often overlooked details …
These ab. 25-30k y/o so-called #Venus figurines have been discussed a lot as religious, health & fertility symbols, & mother goddesses.
But some of them offer s glimpse at another interesting, often overlooked details …
A number of these figures also show a couple of details which might be interpreted as headdress - and even #clothing from the Upper #Paleolithic #Gravettian (of which we have little evidence otherwise).
There has been, however, some interesting research on such #iconographic evidence for #clothing, e.g. by O. Soffer et al. in Archaeology Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia 1(1), 2000:
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☕️Hi! #goodmorning on this rainy sunday!
Yesterday we presented a very interesting discovery made in a cave where we are working now... #Alkerdi2 in #UrdazubiUrdax... let's start this thread!!👇😉
Yesterday we presented a very interesting discovery made in a cave where we are working now... #Alkerdi2 in #UrdazubiUrdax... let's start this thread!!👇😉
Last summer we received an email from @rturoTroska, from the caving group #Satorrak, working within a project coordinated from @aranzadi in the exploration of the Alkerdi/Berroberria massif. They discovered a new passage with engravings and paintings.. the access was not easy👇❗️
⁉️The new passage contains (at least) 3 engraved bison, 3 aurochs, 2 horses and 2 undefined animals, as well as 5 groups of paired strokes in red.
👇📸But it starts with engraved 4 vulvas, so it was called #Aluengalería (vulva in basque) by its discoverers.
👇📸But it starts with engraved 4 vulvas, so it was called #Aluengalería (vulva in basque) by its discoverers.
