23,000 year old statuette of Venus discovered!
Nov 29, 2014 13:06:22 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2014 13:06:22 GMT -6
Folks..It is hard to describe the importance of discoveries like this. Time and recorded history, for most intents and purposes, starts no more distant than 11,400 years ago...give or take a century or two. In fact, I found the 11,400 point to be so significant as a repeating range of things having started or being traced back to, I'd started a whole thread/research on the year and threshold at one time. (A proper range for importance would be more like 10,000-12,000, but that 11,400 was odd for how much it seemed to pop up)
Anyway... This isn't about the threshold of the last ice age, or the "dawning of the agricultural age", as we seem to believe that period marked.
This comes over 2x's further back in history than that!
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As the story notes, over 100 such figurines have been discovered in different areas of modern Europe and Eurasia, but that sure doesn't lessen the importance, in my opinion.
Perhaps I tend to imagine a bit with things like this, but try thinking that way yourself for a moment and the possibilities become interesting, really quick.
Within a few thousand years at most, all but the most unique circumstances of location or conditions will not simply see overall signs of our advanced civilization cease to exist...but the very material it is made from will have largely ceased to exist in any form a future human being would recognize at all.
The exception is generally stone...kinda like this statuette of Venus. Although I'll bet its safe to say they didn't call her that, then.
Who knows what our deep past really holds, and how much lay literally feet from our knowing...if we knew precisely where on Earth's surface to dig for each existing answer to those ancient questions.
Anyway... This isn't about the threshold of the last ice age, or the "dawning of the agricultural age", as we seem to believe that period marked.
This comes over 2x's further back in history than that!
A limestone statuette of a shapely woman some 23,000 years old has been discovered in northern France in what archaeologists Thursday described as an "exceptional" find.
Archaeologists stumbled on the Paleolithic-era sculpture during a dig in the summer in Amiens, the first such find in half a century.
"The discovery of this masterpiece is exceptional and internationally significant," said Nicole Phoyu-Yedid, the head of cultural affairs in the area, on showing the find to the media.
Archaeologists stumbled on the Paleolithic-era sculpture during a dig in the summer in Amiens, the first such find in half a century.
"The discovery of this masterpiece is exceptional and internationally significant," said Nicole Phoyu-Yedid, the head of cultural affairs in the area, on showing the find to the media.
As the story notes, over 100 such figurines have been discovered in different areas of modern Europe and Eurasia, but that sure doesn't lessen the importance, in my opinion.
Perhaps I tend to imagine a bit with things like this, but try thinking that way yourself for a moment and the possibilities become interesting, really quick.
Within a few thousand years at most, all but the most unique circumstances of location or conditions will not simply see overall signs of our advanced civilization cease to exist...but the very material it is made from will have largely ceased to exist in any form a future human being would recognize at all.
The exception is generally stone...kinda like this statuette of Venus. Although I'll bet its safe to say they didn't call her that, then.
Who knows what our deep past really holds, and how much lay literally feet from our knowing...if we knew precisely where on Earth's surface to dig for each existing answer to those ancient questions.
