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No possible, probable shadow of doubt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alice B. Kehoe
Alice B. Kehoe*
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Marquette University, Milwaukee WI 53233, USA
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The ‘fertility symbols’ of Palaeolithic Europe run from unambiguous female effigies to shapes that may not be human at all. A view is taken of some of the forms that makes them into Mars rather than Venus.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 246 , March 1991 , pp. 129 - 131
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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