Well, you know what they say about Frenchmen... It appears that not only is France home to some of the world's oldest cave art, it's likely the home of porn too: well, not really, but how could I resist?
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| An image from a chunk of the collapased ceiling of a rock shelter in France shows an engraved figure that in prehistoric art commonly represents a vulva. Researchers think it's at least 37,000 years old. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) |
Other than a bad joke, I will just repost the article from the CBC here. According to the CBC: "Rock engravings and traces of painting discovered in France are
believed to be from about 37,000 years ago, making them among the
world's oldest such finds. Some of the cave art depicts what appears to be female genitalia. The cave decorations were found on a 1.5-tonne rock-shelter ceiling
that had collapsed at the well-known archeological site of Abri Castanet
in Dordogne, France. The ceiling collapsed 37,000 years ago, meaning
the art dates to at least 4,000 years before the widely studied
paintings in southern France's Chauvet Cave, which had been thought to
be the oldest known cave paintings created by humans and were featured
in Werner Herzog's critically acclaimed 2010 documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams.
"The 'vulvar' representations from southwestern France are as old or
older than the very different wall images from Chauvet," the report
says."
NB: Apologies to the French, Hugh Hefner, Porn stars, Werner Herzog, Cave Men, Women, small garden gnomes, those little toys in a box of Cracker Jacks... and anyone else I may have offended... Sheesh, I feel like Boris Johnson...
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