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The more things change, the more they stay the same (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Catherine McCoid and LeRoy McDermott hypothesize that the figurines may have been created as self-portraits by women.[12]This theory stems from the correlation of the proportions of the statues to how the proportions of women's bodies would seem if they were looking down at themselves, which would have been the only way to view their bodies during this period. They speculate that the complete lack of facial features could be accounted for by the fact that sculptors did not own mirrors.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Water

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I saw that rebuttal and it seemed pretty strange to me.

They couldn't have been sculpting from their own perspective, because they technically had access to viewing themselves from a third-person perspective?

We technically had access to drawing with linear perspective all along, but somehow until only a few hundred years ago, this is the best we could do:

It just seems like a very modern-biased way of thinking about depiction. Mapping objective reality (rather than subjective perception) into art is a relatively new concept.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's missing some of the argument. Part of the idea is pre writing humans passing down successful pregnancy and reproductive information. Women obviously died from childbirth back then as they do now. One theory is that these women were trying to pass down some information of perhaps considered successful childbirth.

There have been times in relatively recent history where incorrect information about pregnancy was being passed down, plus a larger woman would be getting more nutrients in that time than malnourished women. An easy conclusion to make may uave just been to eat alot and be larger.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I mean, that lady's crotch is bigger than her tits, she's not exactly proportional from any perspective. I'm gonna go ahead and say that maybe we have no idea who made it and any argument concerning authorship is pure speculation.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Catherine McCoid and LeRoy McDermott hypothesize that...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Speculation and a hypothesis are two very different levels of certainty in a claim. I suppose, though, that this area of research is somewhat forced to use more certain language than other areas would be comfortable with, given the same quality of evidence. Recognize that "we're just guessing here" also applies to the claim in the meme.