Jan Evert Musch, Animal Farm,1986/1990 / m)affem

"Various feminine figurines: girl, mother, old lady". "In all Stone Age traditions we see now a female figurine that is stylized into the form of a triangle if in the frontal position and into an 'S' shape if in profile. Aspects added onto this figurine can be a face of a young female on the belly and/or a juvenile at her back. The symbolism can still be found in many a mythology as 'Mother-Goddess', 'Mother Earth', 'Mother Nature,' a woman growing up, getting old, and dying, but reborn from herself (like in Navaho mythology). These 'bi-face', cyclic and creative forms can also be found in naturalistic or abstracted form in the as yet enigmatic 'handaxe' 'tools' of Acheulian tradition."

[Note: 'Heidelbergian' component of the Chopper-Choppingtool Complex (CCC) tool industry has minimum dating as at Hamburg-Wittenbergen around 200,000 years ago. 'Old Paleo' = Early or Lower Paleolithic. 'M-Pal(eo)' = Middle Paleolithic. ]

Illustration © J. E. Musch/Stichting Archaeologische Berichten. Musch, J. E. (1986 revised 1990). Animal Farm: Palaeolithic Sculptures from the Northwest European Plains. Precirculated paper, World Archaeological Congress, 1986. Stichtung Archaeologishe Berichten Elst, NL. Page 17.