Das darf unterstrichen werden.
Ergänzend dazu eine neuere statistische Auswertung (Nakamura, Articulate Bodies, 2009), die zur Symbolik der Figuren speziell aus Catalhöyük feststellt:
"Extending this idea a bit further, it becomes possible to view the emphasis of breasts, stomachs, and buttocks outside of the standard gendered-biased frameworks. While the skeletal structure supports the forms of limbs and the head, the forms of breasts, stomachs, and buttocks emerge from bodily soft tissues. The prominence of such features does not only suggest fertility or abundance, but can also indicate longevity and survival. These latter themes might become embodied (quite literally) in the mature body. At a basic level, mature bodies imply durability, experience, and success simply by achieving an advanced age. The features emphasized on the figurines—breasts, bellies, and buttocks—are secondary reproductive traits that are often inscribed with social views on sexuality, health, and status. The striking lack of emphasis on explicit sex traits on figurines, however, and the transposability of certain features such as navels, bellies, and buttocks across various media and body kinds suggests that these body parts and zones addressed concerns that moved across rigid boundaries of male and female, human and animal, and the living and dead."
Und zum Auslegungsproblem:
"Human figurines commonly evoke or have even become synonymous with goddess veneration, the female domestic sphere, and ritual or cultic activities. However, such ideas are often grounded in Euro-American stereotypes and values and are, therefore, deeply problematic when projected back onto the past. Ancient and non-Western female forms have especially sustained projections of Westernized views of the female body, fertility, and sexuality (Bahrani 1996; Meskell 1998a). Large breasts, stomachs, and buttocks, which we find on some figurines at Çatalhöyük, are higly sexualized features in the West, and they may or many not have held the same connotation in the Neolithic. While the prominence of such traits might signify fertility (though pregnancy, birth, and childhood do not appear as representational subjects at Çatalhöyük), it could also denote excess, abundance, or age. Rather than reading the body as a totalizing narrative, one can also consider sites of emphasis and erasure and investigate what these reprentational gestures communicate."
http://www.networkedheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ArticulateBodies2009.pdf