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Figurine of a woman, earthenware, Mexico, 1500 BCE - 500 BCE (infosec.pub)
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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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".