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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
With a curvaceous figure and short stubby arms, the discovery of a 6,000-year-old earth mother in France shows how far the essence of beauty has changed over the centuries.
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Looks like she had a pretty big butt ...
Interesting that the figure (like the famous ancient figurine called the Venus of Willendorf) may depict steatopygia, a trait found today in the Khoi-San of SW Africa and the Andaman Is. Negritos (and in Michelle 0bama?).
... and was a pinhead.
Michelle, baby!!! Who knew our First Lady was immortalized by the ancient Frogs? :)
“and in Michelle 0bama?).”
Eggs Ackley! 8^)
Guilty
6000 years ago? Why, that’s right at the Eve of mankind...
Boobs are too big to be the first wookie
Oh man you had to go and post a pic of that woman. You’re going to run me off of FR.
She suffers a terminal case of Michelebuttitis.
At least she is way to young for any Helen Thomas pictures; maybe she’s a G-G-Granddaughter.
Well I guess even back then they liked big butts.
AC/DC - Whole Lotta Rosie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsFIftPcvIs
She ain’t exactly pretty,
She ain’t exactly small,
42-39-56,
You could say she’s got it all
It looks like the Frenchnen’s preference for women with a rear end like a Percheron mare’s goes back many years!
>>too young for any Helen Thomas pictures
Crud! Too late.
That's BigbooTÉ...
Very interesting, thanks SC. This is clearly Neolithic and unusual for them to have penetrated so far into the north of France so early. It is very middle-eastern/east Mediterranean, I think that pinheaded figurine was common at Gobekli Tepe? I’ll have to go to Google Images. It’s not like the Venus of Willendorf which was thousands of years earlier but descnded from it.
Looks like Mother Earth needs a boob job.
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