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Representation of the female breast in bone carvings from a Neolithic lake village in Switzerland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Juliet Clutton-Brock*
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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Remarkably, as the systematic study of well-preserved artefacts from the Swiss lake villages reaches well into its second century, there are still new – and puzzling – forms to be made sense of.

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