Viggen Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 Archaeologists have unearthed the largest Neolithic female figurine ever found in Italy, according to a press report. The 7,000-year-old stone statuette, discovered during excavations of a burial site near the northern Italian city of Parma, is over 20 centimetres tall, the archaeological monthly Archeo reported. via Ansa.it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DecimusCaesar Posted September 12, 2006 Report Share Posted September 12, 2006 This might dispel the myth that these Female statues were carried around by male hunters as a sort of 'Playboy' of the Stone Age as some of the archaeologists claimed with the Venus of Willendorf. Interestingly I thought that many of these 'earth godesses' statues were made much earlier in the Stone age, during the Mesolithic era not the Neolithic. Does this mean as richard Rudgley suggested in Secrets of the stone age (and like many others have suggested before and after him) that females had a larger role in society? Did Women actually dominate society at this time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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