The figure, dubbed 'The little horny man' because of the huge phallus, was discovered in Lapa do Santo, eastern central Brazil, and is thought to be between 9,000 and 12,000 years old. Photo: NEVES WA/ARAUJO AGM/BERNARDO DV
Posted on 02/27/2012 4:15:29 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The outline of a figure scratched into a cave in Lapa do Santo in central-eastern Brazil is believed to be between 10,000 and 12,000 years and has been dubbed "the horny little man" because of its oversized phallus.
The team of archaeologists from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil made the discovery during excavations in 2009 but unveiled their findings in this month's PLoS ONE scientific journal.
"It shows that about 11,000 years ago, there was already a very diverse manifestation of rock art in South America, so man probably arrived in the Americas much earlier than normally is accepted," explained Walter Alves Neves, the archaeologist and biological anthropologist leading the team.
The figure, which appears to be squatting with his arms outstretched, is about 12 inches tall from head to feet and about 8 inches wide. The phallus is about 2 inches long, about the same length as the man's left arm.
"The figure, which we named 'the horny little man', is probably linked to some kind of fertility ritual," Mr Neves said.
Carbon dating and other tests of the sediment covering the petroglyph suggest the engraving dates between 10,000 and 12,000 years old -- making it the oldest reliably dated example of such rock art found yet in the Americas.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
The figure, dubbed 'The little horny man' because of the huge phallus, was discovered in Lapa do Santo, eastern central Brazil, and is thought to be between 9,000 and 12,000 years old. Photo: NEVES WA/ARAUJO AGM/BERNARDO DV
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Wow...Talk about imagination. What a bunch of ahs
Ancient porn.
Somebody’s really reaching on that one. I’d be more impressed with the duck bill, if I werre them. Not as titillating as a “huge phallus,” I guess.
Why would anyone even consider that it is a picture of MAN...why not a lizard....which would make a lot more sense.
It seems to be raised...not carved...????
Damp environment, something akin to calcification? It does look like an accumulation of some sort.
The crud in the bottom...looked just like that!!!
Tner was a lizard man with a duck bill and a huge phallus in the bottom of your coffepot, lol?
These people are paid big bucks!!
All I saw was black boiled dried bubbled something............
Obviously a gecko...what GEICO ads looked like 11,000 years ago.
From reading the excerpt I was sure they had discovered a picture of my ancestor, but after seeing the ‘horny little man’ I have regretfully concluded that this figure isn’t part of my family tree at all.
Looks more like a duck-billed platypus exulting over catching a clam.
(You know something. I have enough wild imagination that I could probably have been successful as a grant-eating archeologist)
It actually looks like som sort of insect or worm built it with secretions, like termites or “dirt dauber” wasps do, now that I’ve looked at it a while.
I wonder why it never occurs to them that maybe some of the stuff they find are just doodles...
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