Gravettian: San women, with a partly “L-shaped” profile (1, 5), are distinctive in their physical-type. The purpose of this web-page is to explore the possibility that their portrayal in art has existed for almost 30,000 years; and to try to evaluate if they were in a geo- chronological position to help create the paleolithic and neolithic cultures we study. (See No. 3, 30). ARCHEOLOGY SPEAKS: The rock record leaves us a picture of a physical-type that is found in the earliest art depicting the human female. The figurine [omit 17] appear to have the same steatophygous physical form as the San women [1, 5]. For tens of thousands of years, the steatophygous form was the image of the goddess and of beauty. UPPER PALEOLITHIC EUROPE: do the pictures between 25,000 and 23,000 years ago [19, 23,24, 25, 28] show the physical types that created the art and culture of Upper Paleolithic Europe? MESOPOTAMIAN-TURKISH-SYRIAN AGRO-PASTORAL AGE: The figurine between 8000 BC to 4000 BC [6 - 13] have features matching the cranial remains of people in that area and the famous Pre-Flood age (near 3500 BC) before the Sumerians. EUROPEAN AGRO-PASTORAL AGE: In the figurine from 8000 BC to 4000 BC [18, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 29] are we looking at the possible physical-types that we call the Near Eastern Neolithic farmers and pastoralists that brought that way of life to Europe. NORTH AFRICA: In pictures 2, 3, 4 do we see the physical-types which saw the rise of Dynastic Egypt? CLOSING REMARKS: Does art seems to imitate reality? Do the figurine on this page [omit 17] resemble the real physical-types 1 and 5? If so, might the created figurine represent San and are they reasonable candidates for participants in the formation of the ancient civilizations they seem associated with? Philip Smith does: [See: Philip Smith, Départment d’ Anthropologie, Université de Montréal, The Late Palaeolithic of northern Africa, J. Desmond Clark (ed.), The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 1, From Earliest Times to 500 B.C., (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1982), pp. 342 – 409.] NOTE: Not all points-of- interest were covered in webpage.

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