For years archaeologists and anthropologists have claimed that the Venus of Willendorf, a 4 inch, limestone figurine of a VERY buxom and disproportionate female, was a symbol of fertility. It would make sense wouldn't it? I mean women have the babies and lactate and menstruate; they worked in the fields and gathered as the men hunted. Of course.
But that makes sense to us, a, for the most part, educated people who have been around the evolutionary block. Two flaws in the fertility theory exist.
One is that Paleolithic people did not necessarily want human fertility. As a matter of fact they frequently engaged in infanticide, killing, what is estimated to be, more than 50% of all female babies. The plight for scavaging and hunting enough food was difficult enough as it was without worrying about a nursing mother who required more calories and another mouth to feed.
If anything the only fertility they would want would be that of the animals, and I have yet to study figurines of pregnant cattle.
Two is that there are cave drawings that depict men in hunting scenes, they sometimes are shown wearing hides or animal skins yet are represented by phallic symbols.
It is thought that there was no connection at this time to the male's role in procreation and it is for those reasons that there is doubt our 4 inch figure was Miss Fertility 24,000BCE. If the phallys was a show at sexual identification and probable sexual athleticism then the exaggerated mons pubis, buttock and breats, not to mention belly could just as well have been a sexual identification of the female.
The fact that there are over 60 travel sized, possible sex objects allows into question the use of Venus as a sex toy or early porn. Perhaps, centuries from now, the new race of humans will come to find an intact top 10 magazine and proclaim that dripping semen on a womans chest was a ceremonial act to induce fertility.
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