Originally published at: This 42,000-year-old penis pendant is the oldest phallic art ever discovered | Boing Boing
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Sure it’s not just a knife sharpener?
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Are we sure that’s what that is? I sometimes think archaeologists are a little phallic obsessed. Remember that ancient Roman “dildo”? It might just be an old Roman drop spindle | Ars Technica
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I think that this part of figure 2 from the paper is where they get the phallus idea:
With the other images, I wasn’t seeing it. Still looks pretty ambiguous, honestly.
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I think that was found in Mongolia, not Magnolia.
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Now I know why my mom said “you should be an archeologist when you grow up” when I was in the bathroom for hours with the door locked.
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Upper Paleolithic Mongolian woman: “Great. Another idiot just sent me a batch of unsolicited dick sculptures.”
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Maybe there was a set of matching necklaces worn for bachelorette/hen parties.
At least it’s reassuring to know that people had penises 42,000 years ago.
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Loss was much more recent.
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Sometimes a stone is just a stone.
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Given its from 42,000 years ago, it’s not that as any weapons would be stone.
I am having a hard time even discerning a shape - phallic or not. If I had found that rock, I wouldn’t even assume it has been worked by man. I assume the context of where it was found and with what lends to that.
I was just thinking, WTF is Magnolia?
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Outer Magnolia, or Inner Magnolia?
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… sometimes a weird rock is just a weird rock?
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Penis pendant pedantry? 
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Precisely
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Doesn’t look like anyone I know.
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