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A fact from Ayn Ghazal statues appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 July 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the 'Ain Ghazal Statues(example pictured), uncovered in Jordan and dating to the eighth millennium BC, are considered to be among the oldest large-scale representations of the human form ever found?
Please define & elaborate. See D. Schmandt-Besserat (2013), she uses these terms. Elsewhere: figurines or figures, seldom even statues. They're "just" 35-100 cm tall. How are they monumental?
The Feldman quote from the footnotes is the only place where they are mentioned: "They...represent...ancestors...based on the similar treatment of the heads of these statues and the disarticulated and buried plastered skulls." Meant are plastered human skulls - real human skulls, with the soft tissue "reconstructed" with plaster and eyes made of shells sometimes placed inside the eye sockets. They must be mentioned inside the article proper, the two topics closely belong together. Arminden (talk) 21:55, 23 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
