Posted on 04/04/2005 1:22:11 PM PDT by blam
Archaeologist finds 'oldest porn statue'
Krysia Diver in Stuttgart
Monday April 4, 2005
The Guardian (UK)
Stone-age figurines depicting what could be the oldest pornographic scene in the world have been unearthed in Germany. Archaeologists have discovered what they believe to be the 7,200-year-old remnants of a man having intercourse with a woman.
The extraordinary find, at an archaeological dig in Saxony, shatters the belief that sex was a taboo subject in that era.
Until now, the oldest representations of sexual scenes were frescos from about 2,000 years ago.
Harald Stäuble of the Archaeological Institute of Saxony, based in Dresden, discovered the 8cm lower half of a man, which has been named Adonis von Zschernitz. "A unique find," reported Spiegel magazine. "This is the oldest male clay figurine ever discovered in the world."
But the most amazing find came at the dig in Leipzig one month later, when Dr Stäuble found what could be the matching female figurine.
Dr Stäuble, who is due to publish a paper on his findings this year, said: "After finding Adonis, we got the team to sieve every speck of soil for a whole month. We were well rewarded because we then found fragments of a female figurine of the same size."
He added: "Adonis is bent forward and the female figure is bent forward even more.
"There are two ways of looking at this. The first is that they were doing a ritual dance, but the other possibility is that the man and woman were copulating and that he was standing behind her. The copulation option is far more likely, and would make this the oldest representation ever of a pornographic scene."
Until now, there have been discoveries of clay models of women with large breasts and bottoms, which have always been interpreted as connected with fertility. But Adonis was the first figurine that clearly depicted male sexual organs.
"This is such an interesting discovery," said Dr Sträuble, "as these figurines are not stylistic, but realistic. They open up a gateway for historians and anthropologists to discuss whether sex really was a taboo subject in the stone age."
LOL
Actually, in some long ago cultures, sex wasn't thought of, automatically, as pornography.
In some cultures sex was revered for it's life giving properties...
It's all in the interpretation, I guess
This just confirms my observation about "science reporting for the public" -- the reporters can never seem to resist trying to "jazz up" the story by playing up (or just inventing, if necessary) one of (or both) of the following angles:
1. "This challenges/revolutionizes/overturns/shatters previous scientific views."
2. "Huge Controversy takes place over this issue."
It's never enough to just report a discovery, they have to report it as High Drama in the belief that the reader won't find it interesting otherwise.
Well, let's be honest...how much of an accomplishment is that, really? ;o)
*snicker*
Another myth shattered... I thought sex was not invented until quite recently.
I remember sex......vaguely.
Wow...7000 years and its still erect...
Larry Flintstone?
Jurassic P00n
I've heard it has something to do with where babies come from.
For erections lasting more than 4000 years, seek medical assistance promptly.
snort!
There's NO WAY I'd go to any Dr if that'd happen to me, I'd go home to my fiance right away, then make like Quagmire from Family Guy and go..."Aaaaaaaaaallllriight! OH! Giggidy giggidy giggidy!"
ROTFL :D
god what a old bag
Now.................do NOT try and convince me that dinosaurs did "it". No way.
No lips for kissing.......couldn't pick flowers...........no credit cards for expensive dinners and drinks...............Utter nonsense.
Must you ask such a hard question?
Sorry. I can be pretty thick-headed sometimes.
Their diet for the most part consists of whole rotten cabbages and animal intestines stuffed with blood and gore.
Oi! That falls into the realm of neolithic child porn! :-(
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