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Stone Age Fertility Ritual Object Found [...may have been used to promote fertility]
Discovery News ^
| February 4, 2011
| Jennifer Viegas
Posted on 02/21/2011 9:52:20 AM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.discovery.com ...
TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: epigraphyandlanguage; evolution; godsgravesglyphs; marysettegast; platoprehistorian; poland
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To: SunkenCiv
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.
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posted on
02/21/2011 12:17:26 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
To: SunkenCiv
Mmmmm. Elk antlers, zigzags and a willing woman. The hunting lodge of Charlie Sheen's ancestors?
To: SunkenCiv
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.
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posted on
02/21/2011 2:38:25 PM PST
by
exDemMom
(Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
To: exDemMom
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posted on
02/21/2011 2:57:24 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: ApplegateRanch
Why - won’t this - wig - come - off?
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posted on
02/21/2011 2:59:15 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: colorado tanker
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posted on
02/21/2011 2:59:25 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: SunkenCiv
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?
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:03:06 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: SunkenCiv
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].
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:12:14 PM PST
by
Daffynition
( Live EACH DAY as if it were your last, but EXPECT that there still may be a tomorrow.)
To: MHGinTN
They’re trying to figure out what was up with the hoi-polloi, and don’t “get” art.
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:14:21 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: Daffynition
That’s a doctorate for people who are really going places!!!
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:19:09 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: SunkenCiv
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.
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:37:09 PM PST
by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: SunkenCiv
All early art has its roots in Etchaness. Paul Simon wrote a song about it. *Don't Take my Etch-a-Sketch Away.*
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posted on
02/21/2011 3:43:53 PM PST
by
Daffynition
( Live EACH DAY as if it were your last, but EXPECT that there still may be a tomorrow.)
To: Daffynition
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.
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posted on
02/21/2011 5:25:07 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
To: Daffynition
I forgot to attach the piture.
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posted on
02/21/2011 5:40:11 PM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
To: ApplegateRanch
Which is the Picasso, the LBJ?
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posted on
02/21/2011 5:54:37 PM PST
by
Daffynition
( Live EACH DAY as if it were your last, but EXPECT that there still may be a tomorrow.)
To: TheOldLady
Reading about fertility objects and thinking of you ping.
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posted on
02/23/2011 12:47:28 PM PST
by
shibumi
(I am The Nexus One - I want more life, Baby I aint done!)
To: shibumi
That’s sad, since I have always been barren. I do have a fertile mind though.
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posted on
02/23/2011 1:00:10 PM PST
by
TheOldLady
("I am optimistic... [and] greatly heartened by the response of America in 2010..." - Lazamataz)
To: SunkenCiv
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!
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posted on
02/26/2011 5:32:27 PM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: SunkenCiv
"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that stone-age woman out. That's a good-looking woman"
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posted on
02/26/2011 5:50:39 PM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: Beowulf9
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posted on
02/27/2011 5:47:44 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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