And yes, it’s what you expect. LiveScience reports on the giant penis that’s redefining world history:
The time frame during which humans first reached the Americas remains hotly debated. One key to settling this controversy would involve uncovering early examples of human artifacts, such as art.
Scientists discovered one ancient sample of such art in a cave named Lapa do Santo in central-eastern Brazil.
…
In 2009, digging about 13 feet (4 meters) below the surface, the scientists found a rock carving or petroglyph of a man packed into the side of the cave. The figure, which appears to be squatting with his arms outstretched, is about 12 inches (30 centimeters) tall from head to feet and about 8 inches (20 centimeters) wide.
“We discovered this petroglyph in the final moments of excavation at the site,” said researcher Walter Alves Neves, an archaeologist and biological anthropologist at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
The engraving is also depicted with a relatively oversized phallus about 2 inches (5 cm) long, or about as long as the man’s left arm.
“We named the figure ‘the little horny man,'” Neves said.
“The figure is probably linked to some kind of fertility ritual,” Neves told LiveScience. “There is another site in the same region where you find paintings with men with oversized phalluses, and also pregnant women, and even a parturition (childbirth) scene.”
Carbon dating and other tests of the sediment covering the petroglyph suggest the engraving dates between 9,000 and 12,000 years old. This makes it the oldest reliably dated instance of such rock art found yet in the Americas.
Of course, you want to see pictures of the thing, don’t you?
[via]