the Ubaid lizard figurines — spent weeks trying to find a non-weird explanation and I genuinely cannot

these things are from Tell al-'Ubaid and other southern Mesopotamian sites, 5500-4000 BCE, so we're talking pre-Sumerian civilization. terracotta figures with elongated skulls, slanted eyes, reptilian faces. some are holding infants in nursing positions. some have shoulder nodules that look like sca……