Thursday, September 10, 2009

Just Toys

More evidence that the little womanish figurines found at Çatalhöyük and other neolithic sites in the Near East are just toys, not "goddess statuettes." They are found in regular trash dumps, not graves or niches, and they seem to be made in the same way and of the same stuff as the more common figurines of goats. Interestingly, as many seem to be male as female.

1 comment:

ArEn said...

Some neolithic daddy no doubt played "thunder thunder thunder BOOM!" with his toddler.