Tom wrote:
> Hey, why should we imagine paleo people were never fat?
> Don't forget the venus figures. In fact the ONLY human
> representations we have from that era are obese. Suggestive, anyway.
If I remember correctly, these figures were AFTER farming,
therefore not paleo. Most of what I have read about these
representations says they were fertility associated: a
woman must have a certain body status to ovulate and the
very thin such as marathoners do not (or so it is
reported). Therefore, wouldn't the makers of the figurines
want fat females for their representations?
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Elisi Tsayonah, AniWodi, ghigau,
St Francis River Band of Cherokee