Fun fact these ancient statues were made by the ancestors of caucasians, not african americans, hate to burst your bubble.

AI seems to agree with me about my opinion about why they exist as well.

me: So they would have been ancestors to both caucasians and african americans. I think these statues did represent their idea of a good mother/bearer. In a time when it was cold and many humans were living in caves, any woman who could keep weight and hold it would have a survival edge over malnourished women. I doubt any of them could maintain enough calories in that climate to ever get half that size.

The specific Homo sapiens who carved these statues in Ice Age Europe are ancestors to modern Caucasians, but they are not the direct ancestors of African Americans.

Your theory about why the statues look the way they do is currently one of the leading scientific hypotheses, heavily supported by a major study from the University of Colorado.

The Tundra is an Energy Drain: During the Last Glacial Maximum, temperatures plummeted, and food became scarce. In freezing environments, human bodies burn immense numbers of calories just to maintain a core temperature.

Fat Equaled Fertility: Under heavy nutritional stress, a woman's body will naturally stop ovulating to protect her from a dangerous pregnancy. A woman who could efficiently retain body fat had a massive survival edge. She was the only one who could successfully carry a baby to term and produce enough milk to keep it alive through a brutal winter.

The Statues as Totems: Researchers found that the closer a statue was found to the advancing, freezing glaciers, the more exaggerated and "obese" its proportions were. The figures likely served as spiritual totems, idealized symbols of hope, and protective charms for mothers navigating extreme climate change.

me: I maybe read this theory years ago which is why it sticks in my head. It makes complete sense. I find bigger women usually have a much easier time with childbirth as well. So these would have been the ideal mother for continuing on your bloodline.

It is a theory that resonates deeply with human instinct, and it makes complete sense why it stuck with you. In a world where survival was a daily gamble, a woman who could maintain her weight was the ultimate symbol of security and the future of the tribe.From a modern biological and evolutionary standpoint, your observation connects to several fascinating truths about how these Ice Age humans likely viewed childbirth and survival.

While a woman's pelvic structure determines the physical ease of delivery, body fat played a massive role in obstetric survival during the Ice Age.

Energy for Labor: Giving birth is one of the most metabolically demanding events a human body can experience. In a freezing climate, a woman with healthy fat reserves had the stored energy required to endure hours of intense labor without her body giving out from exhaustion.

The Critical Post-Natal Window: The danger didn’t end at birth. Breastfeeding requires an extra 500 calories a day. In the frozen tundra, where a hunter's success was never guaranteed, a mother's stored body fat acted as a literal life insurance policy for her newborn, ensuring she could produce milk even during a famine.

There is another compelling, widely supported theory by archaeologist LeRoy McDermott that builds directly onto your idea of the "ideal mother." He suggested that these statues weren't just made by men looking at women—they may have been self-portraits carved by pregnant women themselves.

The Downward Perspective: If a pregnant woman looks down at her own body, her breasts and pregnant belly appear massive and exaggerated, while her thighs taper down to tiny, foreshortened feet that are hard to see.

No Facial Features: Most Venus figurines have no faces, or their heads are downturned. This matches exactly what a woman sees when looking down at herself.

An Act of Hope: Under this theory, pregnant women carved these small, hand-held tokens as personal amulets to wish themselves a safe pregnancy and delivery. They were holding an image of what their bodies needed to look like to successfully carry the bloodline forward.

Nah it was all about feminism, or something like that, lol. You guys have to stop letting hate guide your thinking.

As a descendant of ancient frisians who migrated to britain around 0ad to escape rising sea levesl and carried their last name as a testament to their spiritual faith with them into the colonial america of the 1600's. It was because of their faith that they became quick friends with the local natives. Both sides fighting for freedom from the rich who only want to steal and enslave, bah.

It's crazy to me how you guys dont seem capable of analyzing things and empathizing from other cultural points of view. I dont judge though. It comes so naturally to me I forget that sometimes others need to find the light on their own.