Posted on 12/12/2011 3:41:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The unearthing of the extremely rare statue in Northern France has been given the rather grand title of 'Lady of Villers-Carbonnel' and is thought to be connected to a cult who worshipped a specific fertility goddess.
Immaculately preserved the 8 inch statue was made from local earth or clay and closely resembles figurines found across the Mediterranean.
Earth mother: With a curvacious figure the discovery of the statue found in the ruins of a kiln in Northern France shows how far the essence of beauty has come in the last 6,000 years
It is unusual for a find to found so far north, experts told The Independent.
And it is because the figure was discovered broken in five or six parts while she was being fired, sometime between 4300 and 3600 BC, which has kept her so well preserved.
She was found in the ruins of a neolithic kiln on a dig near Villers-Carbonnell on the banks of the River Somme.
Archaeologist in charge of the dig, Francoise Bostyn, told The Independent the find could be one of many.
She said: 'The statuette is very beautiful and remarkably preserved.
'We sometimes find fragments of such statuettes but rarely the whole figure.'
She added the figure of the statue was very similar to figures found as far away as the Middle East from the same period.
The dig became possible after the French government 'preventative archaeology agency, Inrap, gave permission and money to explore 77 sites along the 60-mile course of the new 50m wide Seine-Nord Europe canal.
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Funny that they can only find the girl toys.
LOL!
OTOH, the Lion Man is something like 10K years *older* than the V of W.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2819505/posts
Common Fertility Idol.
How do we know it wasn’t some sort of ancient porn?
Sir Mix-A-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” translated into Latin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1001719/posts
I sometimes wonder if this is simply a child’s toy dad made for the kiddo because she got a “A” in cave drawing !
Baby Got Back!
Never archived this but images are similar to ones found on the island of Malta I believe made during the same period.
Steatopygian females were once considered beautiful, it seems.
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