Doll – children’s toy or sacred symbol

The history of the ancestors of all modern dolls totals neither more nor less, but more than 30 thousand years! One of such artifacts made of mammoth bone, the oldest doll, was found on the territory of modern Czechoslovakia and its approximate age was 30-35 thousand years. The Egyptian figures in the form of a silhouette of a man with filament hair decorated with beads found in tombs are much shorter years – only 3.5-4 thousand. The meaning has changed, but not the content of Metamorphoses that have occurred with dolls over the centuries is not so amazing as it might seem at first glance. For example, the popular resource http://www.e-katalog.ru/m514.htm presents an amazing collection of modern dolls – the images of the heroes of famous cartoons, dolls and more. Continue reading →