Posted on 04/15/2005 8:42:19 PM PDT by tbird5
New pornographic figurines from the Stone Age have been discovered in Germany. But researchers can't agree on what the 7,000-year-old sculptures mean. Were our ancestors uninhibited sex fiends, or was reproduction strictly controlled to improve mobility? An increasing number of finds seem to indicate the Stone Age was an orgy of sexual imagination.
The project itself was far from extraordinary. Workers near the Eastern German city of Leipzig were digging a ditch for a new gas line. Hum drum. But what they discovered was far from routine. A backhoe unearthed a 7,200-year-old, Stone Age garbage pit -- and it was filled with refuse from some of the first farmers on the European continent. Moreover, upon rushing to the site, archeologists discovered an 8.2 centimeter (3.2 inches) clay torso buried underground. The legs, abdomen and head were missing, but, according to the lucky archeologists, the figure still had its most important features intact: a "well-shaped behind" and a "short, but impressive" penis.
Since its discovery on August 19, 2003, the partially intact "Adonis from Chernitz" -- as it has been dubbed -- has been creating quite a stir at the state office of archeology in Dresden. Sculptors have carefully recreated the curve of the figure's buttocks and other anatomical minutiae are also clearly visible. Archeologist Harald Staeuble is amazed at the detail.
He's not the only one. The find is clearly a remarkable one -- and is the oldest clay figure ever found anywhere in the world.
(Excerpt) Read more at service.spiegel.de ...
Did the ancient folks have to wrap them in plain brown wrappers? :-)
"short, but impressive" penis."
Hey...thats my line
Gumby with a woody?
"anatomical minutiae"
Don't EVER say that to a guy!
Sir...Sir, pardon me, but my wife was just admiring your "short, but impressive" penis.
BTTT
Fairly into doggie-style, must be my ancestors.
That's not the penis, you dumbsh!t.
bttt
Especially, the figurines of the caveman with the bulbous nose and the herpes lip and the other caveman with the huge jowls, shoving a cavewoman into a lake.
Maybe, but the article doesn't name any, and this particular one is neither pornographic nor requires any sexual imagination.
More interesting because its a male figure since the usual figurines are female and have always been considered quasi religiuos represntations of the Mother or Earth Goddess.
Perhaps this midden was the Stone Age equivilent of a 'bath house'???
From webster.com
Etymology: Greek pornographos, adjective, writing about prostitutes, from pornE prostitute + graphein to write; akin to Greek pernanai to sell, poros journey -- more at FARE, CARVE
1 : the depiction of erotic behavior (as in pictures or writing) intended to cause sexual excitement
Ahhhh, the liberal media trying to normalize pornography. Do you think there was even a concept of pornography 7000 years ago? Thanks for the insight Tammy Bruce!
Thanks. I could'n'a put it better. The researchers couldn't sell the story with the retro fertility symbol angle. But, establishing pornography as an ancestral hominid trait: priceless. It sells the story and advances the whole metrosexual narrative. It's a win-win.
They were filthy animals!!!(literally - No human DNA. Get it?)
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