title: Stone-age art "Venuses" as heuristic clues for types of obesity: contribution to "iconodiagnosis".
abstract: Two types of obesity (gluteal and abdominal) depicted quite consistently in prehistoric art of different European locations suggests the potential cross-fertilization for physiological inquiry by medical interpretation of prehistoric art, called iconodiagnosis.
mesh_terms: D001154:Art / Q000266:history*; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D009765:Obesity / Q000266:history*