Another
megalithic woman from southern Ethiopia, one i haven't seen before.
Over the years, more photos keep surfacing. This one is unlike others
i've seen, especially in the face, and what looks like a comb hanging
from her necklace, but she still has the breasts (faintly sculpted).
However, she resembles one group of sculptures that bear a symbol
archaeologists call signe ramifié / branched sign; it often looks like a
vulva to me, and sometimes resembles millet or teff. The sign appears
higher up the belly on some of the sculptures, or even low between the
"legs" -- but not on this one. Hard to explain this; I'll do a webcast
in future so you can see what i'm talking about. If you go back through
the photos section, i posted about this before, with a comparison to
traditional belly scarification of Anouak women. Their people used to
live in this megalithic region but were displaced by the Oromo centuries
ago.
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