| Chapter 2: | Female Figures in Eurasian Neolithic Iconography |
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Figure 7. Crouching stone “fish” figure from the Mesolithic site of Lepenski Vir. Lepenski Vir Museum. Photograph by Gregory L. Dexter.
center. The woman's hands are clearly positioned in such a way that they are meant to expose her genitalia—which are depicted quite graphically—exactly as with Sheela-na-gigs (as we will discuss) and related European figures. The tall, elongated, triangular-shaped organ that the Chinese archaeologists take to be a penis (it was thought that this figure was hermaphroditic) has the same basic shape as the exposed sexual organ of some of the Sheela-na-gigs and related European female figures. The depiction of the hands, fingers, and vulva are uncannily similar to those of some of the Lepenski Vir figures. The woman squats with her knees wide apart, also exactly as with the Sheela-na-gigs