Polish archaeologists recently unearthed a 13,000-year-old piece of elk antler covered with scratched zigzag lines. They have interpreted this particular assemblage of lines as a woman with her legs spread, and they therefore have announced that the antler is a fertility object. What can you say except, "Sure, maybe"?
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Zig Zags and the Archaeological Imagination
Polish archaeologists recently unearthed a 13,000-year-old piece of elk antler covered with scratched zigzag lines. They have interpreted this particular assemblage of lines as a woman with her legs spread, and they therefore have announced that the antler is a fertility object. What can you say except, "Sure, maybe"?
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