The goddess perches upon a giant scallop shell, pale green waves lapping around her. Her long golden hair rustles in the wind as she is blown to shore upon her seashell vessel. She is nude, her body ...

Stone carving of the Venus symbol from Chichén Itzá in Yucatán, Mexico. Maya hieroglyphs tell the political history of the ancient civilization. Information from the UC Davis Maya Hieroglyphic ...

These Venus figurines may have very well operated as a “symbol and metaphor” of temporal processes in the natural world. As early humans endeavored to make meaning of the transient world around them, ...

Co-authored with Journay Clinch, MA candidate, Psychology Department, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Scattered across the archeological sites of the Eurasian continent, hundreds of ...