Archaeology Exhibition of Prehistoric Women from Macedonia Displayed in Montenegro

BalkanTravellers.com ^ | Wednesday, May 27, 2009 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Hey, for all we know, these things were made as prehistoric Happy Meal toys. ;’)

[Billthedrill]

They looked like this. You ain't a-gonna tell me they didn't.

[windsorknot]

Yaba Daba Doo!

[SunkenCiv]

“What is that if not history?” — Charlie Harper

[Drammach]

There is hardly an excavated house from the Neolithic and the Eneolithic periods in which a female idol was not discovered, Kolishtrkoska-Nasteva told the Macedonian Arheoloshki Dnevnik website last year, adding that the figurines testify for the fact that women were very respected in by these prehistoric societies.

I would simply note that figurines of horses, cattle, and other livestock are also found at prehistoric sites.

Women may not have been so much respected as valued, for their ability to produce sons instead of daughters, or producing strong offspring that survived to adulthood.

Likewise, the idols (or at least, statuettes ) were broken, which could just as easily represent a symbolic sacrifice of some sort as anything else.

There is definitely room for interpretation.

[SunkenCiv]

Good point. For all we know this was an accounting system, not that dissimilar to other known preliterate accounting systems.

[longtermmemmory]

...asking him to intervene to "clean up the historical debris" left by the previous U.S. administration's policy on the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). According to those signing the letter -- including widely read authors on ancient Greece and Alexander like Paul Cartledge, Steven H. Rutledge and Robin Lane Fox -- Skopje's claims to a Macedonian descent of its Slavic population and its "misappropriation" of Alexander the Great as the country's national hero are a "subversion of history"... An initiative begun by Stephen G. Miller, Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, the website was continuing to collect the signatures of scholars in support of the letter, with the original 200 having grown to a list of 237 by May 25.


The usurpation of the real history of Macedonia (as in Greece) is a fascinating political study. For example the sixteen point star is a historical reference to the ancient gods and the season. each point being a god and each quarter being assigned to a season. The skopians have relegated the meaning of the very specific sixteen point star into "just a solar symbol.


It also get mired in revisionist history and pay back politics. Colin Powell promised he would "get back" at the Greeks for their opposition to the Annan plan to reunify cyprus. (for those in rio linda, it would have sanctioned the occupation of land by an invading force. think california)


The bones may be dead but the politics of the region are alive and well in the new cold war.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ltm.

[colorado tanker]

In for #29.

I thought they looked like Victoria Vetri. I saw a documentary of that era - on Skinemax.

[SunkenCiv]

:’)