Stone Age Fertility Ritual Object Found [...may have been used to promote fertility]

Discovery News ^ | February 4, 2011 | Jennifer Viegas

[SunkenCiv]

THE GIST

• A Paleolithic elk antler, carved with zigzag lines and a human figure, has been unearthed in Poland.
• Analysis of the figure indicates an image on it depicts a woman with spread legs.
• Carved zigzags on the object may symbolize water and life.

[ApplegateRanch]

Woman my aching patootie! That’s a man!

In fact, it is an ancient ‘manuscript*’ copy of a later (plagerized) classic: “Yellow Rivers” by I. P. Freelie

Unless ancient women were really built on the Martian tripedal model envisioned by Heinlein.

*”manuscript” originally drived from ancient roots meaning “written (scripted) in the snow, by a man;” later, by extension, applied to all scratched out works.

[colorado tanker]

Mmmmm. Elk antlers, zigzags and a willing woman. The hunting lodge of Charlie Sheen's ancestors?

[exDemMom]

Thank you. From that runic alphabet you posted, I have been able to logically deduce what the object is.

It is a plaque with a runic number on it, bordered on top and bottom with decorative zig zag lines. Obviously, the plaque is shown sideways in the photo (to be fair, it has no clear top and bottom, so orienting it would be difficult). Plaques such as these were, no doubt, stuck into the mud wall near the doorways of their huts, so that they could tell them apart.

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure.

[SunkenCiv]

Why - won’t this - wig - come - off?

[SunkenCiv]

;’)

[MHGinTN]

What is wrong with archaeologists that they keep seeing female sexuality in crude line drawings? ... Is archaeology the profession the sexually twisted now flock to?

[Daffynition]

My doctorate was in the field of presidential doodles. From my vast research and study, I would say unequivocally it is close to the seminal work of Calvin Coolidge [circa 1923].

[SunkenCiv]

They’re trying to figure out what was up with the hoi-polloi, and don’t “get” art.

[SunkenCiv]

That’s a doctorate for people who are really going places!!!

[wildbill]

It may not be from the Stone Age. Or it might be identifiying marks from a surviving cult.

Because I’ve seen similar drawings carved into the paint on bathroom walls of service stations and bars all over this country.

[Daffynition]

All early art has its roots in Etchaness. Paul Simon wrote a song about it. *Don't Take my Etch-a-Sketch Away.*

[ApplegateRanch]

Now I know where Chester Gould got some of his ideas for Dick Tracy villains.

Most especially “Influence” and “Blowtop”.

At the high end of the artistic scale, it becomes obvious that Picasso studied Cool Cal's portfolio closely, also.

[ApplegateRanch]

I forgot to attach the piture.

[Daffynition]

Which is the Picasso, the LBJ?

[shibumi]

Reading about fertility objects and thinking of you ping.

[TheOldLady]

That’s sad, since I have always been barren. I do have a fertile mind though.

[Beowulf9]

An poorly drawn artists drawing of a log reflected in a river.

However, behind it is a much better artist’s painting of a person riding on a horse, holding upright what looks like a spear brandishing feathers at the base and followed closely by a black scary object, possible a storm or menacing spirit, done in smoky black silhouette.

He’s the Michaelangelo of his day!

[Beowulf9]

"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that stone-age woman out. That's a good-looking woman"

[SunkenCiv]

;’)