Venusfiguren - ersehntes Köperideal in knappen Zeiten?
Verfasst: 03.12.2020 13:01
Je dichter an den ehemaligen Gletschern, desto fettleibiger die Venusfigurinen?
Der ideale Körperbau in Zeiten der Knappheit?
“The aesthetics of art thus had a significant function in emphasising health and survival to accommodate increasingly austere climatic conditions.”
To develop their theory, Johnson, medical colleague Miguel Lanaspa-Garcia and anthropologist John Fox measured the waist-to-hip and waist-to-shoulder ratios of a number of figurines.
They discovered that those found closest to glaciers were more obese and believe they thus represented an idealised body type for times of scarcity. Obesity became a desired condition because an obese female could better carry a child through pregnancy.
Many of the figurines are well-worn, the researchers say, indicating they were probably heirlooms passed from mother to daughter through generations. Women entering puberty or in the early stages of pregnancy may have been given them in the hopes of imparting the desired body mass to ensure a successful birth."
https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/anthr ... the-times/
Der ideale Körperbau in Zeiten der Knappheit?
“The aesthetics of art thus had a significant function in emphasising health and survival to accommodate increasingly austere climatic conditions.”
To develop their theory, Johnson, medical colleague Miguel Lanaspa-Garcia and anthropologist John Fox measured the waist-to-hip and waist-to-shoulder ratios of a number of figurines.
They discovered that those found closest to glaciers were more obese and believe they thus represented an idealised body type for times of scarcity. Obesity became a desired condition because an obese female could better carry a child through pregnancy.
Many of the figurines are well-worn, the researchers say, indicating they were probably heirlooms passed from mother to daughter through generations. Women entering puberty or in the early stages of pregnancy may have been given them in the hopes of imparting the desired body mass to ensure a successful birth."
https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/anthr ... the-times/