Today, clothes are the means of self -expression and group identity, and we will not go without them.
Photo of Martin Parr/Magnum
Venus figurines are most famous for their sexual characteristics. These often made women’s sculptures, which were made about 30, 00 to 20,000 years ago, have been interpreted as a ritual -style Ility, the goddess of the mother, and the self -portrait. Like a fashion plate, one of them is not generally seen. However, some of them can be glimpsed by the appetite that a woman from a well -dressed stoneware was wearing. One of Russian Kostenki is equipped with a strap -style robe. Others have stringed instruments. And the famous Venus of Willendorf is wearing a woven hat, but it is a very wonderful hat.
These statues are far from our general concepts in the past, covered with animal fur. According to an archaeologist Olga Sofa, a professor of Emerita, a professor at the University of Illinois, the luxurious details of their clothing showed the importance of clothing tens of thousands of years ago and hundreds of thousands of years ago. Masu. It started as needed and turned into a canvas for aesthetic expressions and meanings to keep people warm. Now, the story of how it happened was a twist, thanks to some new discoveries.
Clothes are easy to rot, and the oldest archeological sites are only 10,000 years ago. However, as the Venus figurine shows, we can follow the time dating in other ways. These archeological clues have revealed the origin of both simple cape and complex tailoring. largely…
