Eight views of the tiny woman standing in the Eagle Pose yoga position, carved from mammoth tusk.
http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?pageIndex=27&rid=84545
Posted on 02/21/2011 9:18:08 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The prehistoric Czech "Venus of Predmosti", north Moravia, an engraving of a woman on a mammoth tusk, which is one of the oldest artifacts in Europe, may exist in another version that is in a U.S. collection, Martina Galetova, from Brno's museum, has told CTK.
The engraving dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic Age was found over 100 years ago by archaeologist Martin Kriz.
It is housed in the Moravian Land Museum (MZM) in Brno.
The possible "twin sister" of the "Venus of Predmosti" is owned by U.S. art collector Duncan Caldwell.
Both engravings are very similar.
Experts from the Moravian museum are not fully convinced that Caldwell's artifact is genuine.
"It must be further examined thoroughly. However, he (Caldwell) has not given his consent to it yet," Galetova, from the museum, who examined Caldwell's Venus for a short time, told CTK.
If it were proved that both artifacts were made in the same locality at the same time, while one of them disappeared and was uncovered only recently, it would be a real sensation since "Venus of Predmosti" is unparalleled in Europe.
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Billy Jeff and Laz would hit it.
Eight views of the tiny woman standing in the Eagle Pose yoga position, carved from mammoth tusk.
http://www.mnartists.org/work.do?pageIndex=27&rid=84545
I was thinking the same thing. Modern art of the time?
All my ancestors came from this exact area. Might be my Great Granny 10x?
“I wonder how anyone determined that that is a woman”
I agree. Some bookwork of an antropologist just failed another ink block test. and there are two of them that just do not look anything like a woman. Therefore they must be twin sisters.
Stunningly beautiful piece!
It always about sex as even today it’s an enigma when trying to explain it.
Phallic along with woman’s reproduction and nurturing capabilities besides umbilical marks never cease to amaze.
It’s not a big leap in art work or psychology.
Aren’t the Predmosti brothers those guys in Pittsburgh that make the famous sandwiches?
That’s gouda guess as any.
Are they sure it was a mammoth tusk she was on, and not a crescent moon?
Or did they mean "an engraving on a mamooth tusk of a woman...,"?
Without photos to clarify their sloppy English usage, it is hard to tell what they mean.
So easy a caveman could do her . . . .
And Lo!
He arose and brought forth a plague of coffee upon the people who wept bitterly.
For the coffee caused manifestattions of undead and all manner of bizarre happenstance.
And all was laid waste under the cloven hooves of the zombie deer.
Heed the words of the Darksheare.
...and its side effects.
Yes. We’re still dealing with the zombie deer. We actually protect them during hunting season. Can you imagine what would happen over at the butcher’s if a hunter brought one in?
That would be BAD.
LOL
I did try to get the local deer in my area to drink the stuff.
Apparently only the squirrels were brave enough.
[Local deer are on to me.]
Said squirrel will now lay flat under the bird feeder and ooze around.
Oddly, the marks in the snow resemble the “Venus” carving.
Truly weird.
Synchronicity.
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