\"Writing.Com
*Magnify*
    November     ►
SMTWTFS
     
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
Archive RSS
SPONSORED LINKS
Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/649582-Oldest-Known-Sculpture
Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #1196512
Not for the faint of art.
#649582 added May 13, 2009 at 5:10pm
Restrictions: None
Oldest Known Sculpture
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/oldestsculpture/

From a cave in southwestern Germany, archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known piece of figurative art. More than an ancient artistic impulse, it may signify a profound change in modern human brains.

Click on the link and go to the site, have a look and a read.

Done?

Okay, so they find a 30,000 year old product of the human artistic impulse (which is about 30,000 years older than some willfully ignorant and superstitious products of the same genetic line think the world is), and what is it?

Porn.

No, don't give me any "fertility goddess" crap. There are perfectly good fertility goddesses with perfectly normal (if somewhat idealized) figures. Nope - this one's some caveman's masturbation fantasy, I can practically guarantee it. Besides, if memory serves, 36,000 years ago, we hadn't gotten into the whole agriculture thing yet, which as far as I know is pretty much a prerequisite to have an Inanna or Astarte.

"Og carve chick with big bazoongas. Og be in his bunk."

© Copyright 2009 Robert Waltz (UN: cathartes02 at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Robert Waltz has granted Writing.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.
Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/649582-Oldest-Known-Sculpture