[SunkenCiv]

The figurine is presumed to have been made by modern humans

[americanophile]

[SunkenCiv]

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[ETL]

Someone remarked on a thread I posted on this earlier that it looks like a chicken with breast implants. Lol!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2250919/posts?page=5#5

[doc1019]

I would suggest a young lad with an ability to carve and an imaginative libido. One not yet experienced in the true body proportions that only experience can give. IMHO ;-)

[garyhope]

Meghan McCain?

[hellbender]

A similar effigy is the Venus of Willendorf:

Some people have noted a resemblance in the features, such as the protruding buttocks and tightly curled hair, to African Bushmen (Khoisan) and SE Asian Andaman Negritoes, both postulated to be among the most ancient of human races.

[GSP.FAN]

[Ciexyz]

Reminds me of the African fertility statues in Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum in Orlando, where a sign tells female visitors to touch the statue and you’ll get pregnant. Perhaps these prehistoric figurines had the same function.

[Cincinna]

Thanks Civ The Venus of Willendorf is considered by Art historians to be the oldest, certainly the best preserved of these prehistoric representations of the female form. They are thought by most to have been fertility totems. The fact that so few remain, or have been found is because they are so old, and fragile.