The “Venuses” are those little prehistoric sculptures of naked ladies found all over Europe.
You might not want to read this article, as it features both the phrases “obesity” and “climate change.” But long story short, it seems that the closer the Venuses were to the glaciers, the fatter they were. The assumption is that, the harder food was to come by, the fatter the ideal mama became.
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… Huh.
That certainly puts “the 13th Warrior” in a different light.
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Huh? I read that and I don’t remember any Venuses. Unless you mean the Neanderthal matriarch that they kill?
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That’s the one. At least in the movie, the first sign of the enemy they are tracking is a symbol very much like that Venus.
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Ooo I forgot about that! Yes, I think you are right. The Venuses have been taken to be a sign of a matriarchal culture.
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Is it weird that I kind of want one? xD
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Replicas are available, so it must not be.
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