surreality – Barbie dolls in Minoan Crete

Stringy Carter has put me on to an extraordinary web site – Minoan Culture, a Discussion by Frederick John Kluth of Kent, Ohio

Snake Goddess

Barbie as prehistoric matriarch

He has created a series of scenes from his reading of Minoan Crete using Barbie dolls …

not the usual gendered interpretation of Minoan culture and society!

But I suspect this has a lot in common with the way excavator Sir Arthur Evans thought of bronze age Crete.

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