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What archaeologists got wrong about female statues, goddesses, and fertility
How modern society views art can be totally different from the way it was intended. (Adam Wilson via Unsplash/)The following is an excerpt adapted from Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz. Excerpted from Four Lost Cities by Annalee Newitz, published by W. W. Norton & Company. Reprinted with permission. All other rights reserved.Sometimes a naked woman isn’t a naked woman.It all started back in the early 1960s, when the British archaeologist James Mellaart was the first European to get permission to excavate Çatalhöyük, an ancient city in modern-day Anatolia, Turkey. At the time, the place was known to locals as two picturesque mounds whose grassy tops still

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