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No possible, probable shadow of doubt
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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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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