[SunkenCiv]

A Stone Age-era artifact carved with multiple zigzags and what is likely a woman with spread legs suggest fertility rituals may have been important to early Europeans. A close-up of etchings found on a 11,000-year-old elk antler. Scientists believe the figure is a woman with spread legs. -- image. Tomasz Plonka

[exDemMom]

Scientists believe the figure is a woman with spread legs.

And how do they come to that conclusion? The marks could just as easily be a critter of some sort (it looks generally frog-like to me), or it could be some sort of tally system.

[Interesting Times]

It would be more honest for the scientists to write, “There are geometric markings carved on this antler, but we have no idea what they might mean.” However, this sort of honesty does not enhance the odds of getting one’s grant renewed.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Many women long for a baby. Men are happy to aid in that endeavor. What makes anyone think that it wasn’t always that way?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Thanks for your interesting post. However, the object pictured looks more like it was a Rorschach test for archaeologists than a fertility item.

[dirtymac]

another ink blot failure by bookish anthropologist.

[Jeff Winston]

Scientists believe the figure is a woman with spread legs.

You mean a headless "woman," who also pretty clearly appears to have a "thingy."

So much for "scientists."

[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?

[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].

[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.

[shibumi]

Reading about fertility objects and thinking of you ping.

[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"