Historical Artifacts

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Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

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Figurine of a woman, earthenware, Mexico, 1500 BCE - 500 BCE (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyartifacts@lemmy.world

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[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Somebody was horny

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Everybody was horny

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I dunno. I don't think they'd have time for that while kung-fu fighting.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

It's possible that they were fighting because of something someone did earlier. It may (or may not) have had anything to do with being horny. I'm just open to the possibility that the one lead to the other, even if there's no archeological or lyrical record of it. Sometimes you find this stuff in the subtext.

[–] Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

And now, so am I.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Back when I studied Anthropology in college, they would always talk about statuettes like these being evidence of a "cult of fertility". Years later I realized that's just fancy academia language for "porn".