World's Oldest Sculpture: Carved by Caliga's Ancestor?

[Malthus]

World's oldest sculpture depicting a human - a woman with HUGE breasts:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2009/05/13/9446516-ap.html

Mellars suggested a more basic motivation for the carving: "These people were obsessed with sex."

[Caliga]

 

Is this something new?  All of the oldest sculptures that I'm aware of have been Venus figurines, which are basically a giant pair of boobs with legs.

But yes, to answer your question, I am the ancestor of all humanity.

[garbon]

But yes, to answer your question, I am the ancestor of all humanity.

That doesn't answer his question...

[Caliga]

But yes, to answer your question, I am the ancestor of all humanity.

That doesn't answer his question...

I'm large and in charge, and I say it does.  Now scram, naysayer.

[Malthus]

Is this something new?  All of the oldest sculptures that I'm aware of have been Venus figurines, which are basically a giant pair of boobs with legs.

But yes, to answer your question, I am the ancestor of all humanity.

Read the article - it is true that other old sculptures have been "venus figurines", but this one is older by many thousands of years.

The Hohle Fels sculpture is curvaceous and has neither feet nor a head, like some of the roughly 150 so-called Venus figurines found in a range from the Pyrenees mountains to southern Russia and dating back about 25,000-29,000 years.

But Cook warned against trying to draw any connections between the Venuses and the Hohle Fels figure, saying that would be like comparing Picasso to a classical sculptor — too much time had passed.

"I wonder whether at this point we're looking at figures which are unique within themselves and unique within the cultures that they're arising in," she said.

[Syt]

In Austria we have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_willendorf

The Venus of Willendorf, also known as the Woman of Willendorf, is an 11.1 cm (4 3/8 inches) high statuette of a female figure estimated to have been created between 24,000 BCE – 22,000 BCE. It was discovered in 1908 by archaeologist Josef Szombathy at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the city of Krems.[1] It is carved from an oolitic limestone that is not local to the area, and tinted with red ochre.

Since this figure's discovery and naming, several similar statuettes and other forms of art have been discovered. They are collectively referred to as Venus figurines, although they pre-date the mythological figure of Venus by millennia.

[Caliga]

Read the article

Can't, which is why I asked "is this something new?"  I'm at work and don't want to risk boobs appearing on my screen. 

edit: Thanks, Syt. 

[Syt]

Point of the article seems to be that the new find appears to be much older than previous ones.

[Syt]

Also: is Malthus subtly calling Caliga a troglodyte? 

[The Brain]

[Syt]

Oprah?

[Malthus]

Read the article

Can't, which is why I asked "is this something new?"  I'm at work and don't want to risk boobs appearing on my screen. 

edit: Thanks, Syt. 

Don't worry, the pic in the linked article is fully SFW - you really have to be *told* it depicts boobs.

[Malthus]

Also: is Malthus subtly calling Caliga a troglodyte? 

Unnecessary. He lives in Kentucky.

[Caliga]

Thanks, Brain. 

[The Brain]

Thanks, Brain. 

It was in my paper today.