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Goddesses figure Prehistoric Ur, Sumer, now Iraq.
Into Eden Epic Prehistoric Saga
Into Eden - A 21st Century archaeologist falls into Neolithic prehistory within a site she is excavating.
Her story is just a click away, on the archaeologist above, as she enters a previously undiscovered chamber.
Demeter Does Earthquakes
Demeter was the Greek's Mother Earth goddess. So its appropriate that now Demeter does perpetual polar passes, orbiting the Earth and observing her plates. As you know, the crust of Earth is a shattered collection of large plates. These plates are banging into each other, being pushed under one another, and generally moving around.
Spring of the Gazelles
Humans continuously lived at at this 8000 year old Jordanian site for over two thousand years.
"The female form is cast in an elaborate
geometric framework," notes archaeologist Denise Schmandt-Besserat from the
University of Texas. "The image is built around a vertical axis beginning
between the breasts and continuing along the thighs. Shoulders, arms, breasts,
fatty rolls, thighs and knees are symmetrically arranged around this central
line, but the womb bursts out in the center, at the focal point of the figurine."
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