arms and legs outstretch. They have been similarly interpreted, as show in the goddess giving birth, but this may be doubled as they do not show female breasts or genitalia clearly. The rooms in which most of the paintings and sculptures were found have been called shrines perhaps misleadingly even if no more than the rituals of a fertility cult are im The inhabitants probably made no more distinction between ritual and domestic spheres than do small-scal societies still surviving today, such a the Nuba in Africa