{"id":26168,"date":"2020-12-03T08:38:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T08:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/antropologia\/venus-no-serian-simbolo-fertilidad-sino-consecuencia-clima-extremo-hambrunas-asociadas"},"modified":"2020-12-03T08:38:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T08:38:40","slug":"las-venus-no-serian-simbolo-de-fertilidad-sino-consecuencia-de-un-clima-extremo-y-hambrunas-asociadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/las-venus-no-serian-simbolo-de-fertilidad-sino-consecuencia-de-un-clima-extremo-y-hambrunas-asociadas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Venuses would not be a symbol of fertility, but rather a consequence of an extreme climate and associated famines."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Although we have all assumed that the Venus of Willendorf symbolizes fertility, a new interpretation suggests that we are actually seeing something else.<\/p>\n

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The Venus of Willedorf, and other Venuses, would be a sign of the fear or hope of hunter-gatherers due to the sudden drop in temperatures and the lack of food associated with them. The Venus, then, It would be a symbol of caloric opolence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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This is what a researcher at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus suggests, Richard Johnson<\/strong>, in A study<\/a> published in the magazine Obesity<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The first modern humans entered Europe during a warming period about 48,000 years ago; as he explains:<\/p>\n

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We demonstrate that these figures correlate with moments of extreme nutritional stress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Known as Aurignacians, they hunted reindeer, horses and mammoths with bone-tipped spears. As temperatures dropped, the ice sheets advanced and disaster struck. During the colder months, temperatures dropped to 10-15\u00baC<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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It was during these desperate times that obese figurines appeared. They were between 6 and 16 centimeters long and made of stone, ivory, horn or occasionally clay. Johnson and his team measured the statues' waist-hip and waist-shoulder ratios. They found that those closest to the glaciers were the most obese compared to those further away. Obesity, according to researchers, became a desired condition<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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No country in the world has less than 20% of people who are overweight or obese and that is a problem for COVID-19<\/a>\n <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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We found that body size ratios were higher when glaciers advanced, while obesity decreased as the climate warmed and glaciers retreated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The figurines may also have been imbued with spiritual meaning: a kind of fetish or magical charm that could protect a woman during pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding.<\/p>\n

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As the size of the abdomen increases, the probability of suffering from dementia increases.<\/a>\n <\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The increased fat would provide a source of energy during pregnancy through weaning the baby and also as much-needed insulation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n