From: Hans Kylberg  wrote:
>>Have a look at a picture of those small woman statyettes
from old stonage (Venus from Willendorf). They are really
fat. The sculpturer must have seen a woman in real life
that fat to be able make them. There must have been
obesity 30000 years ago.<<

I'm wondering if a comparison to Egyptian is applicable?

An Egyptian is often pictured thin, yet there is much to suggest the
opposite.

Possibly, 30k ago, most everyone was thin, but depicated themselves as
larger.

Some of the Hellenistic art revered woman large with child.

Current Eskimo art is rotund in form and shape, yet in jeans and a T-shirt,
a different picture all together, especially for those who don't yet have a
corner McDonalds

Just a thought, strange shapes and forms come from the hands of an artist,
rare are the periods of art that try to "copy" what they see?

In today's surgical clinics, women who are slight present themselves for
augmentation, those who are endowed, present themselves for reduction.

Grant

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