Venus figurines may be a symbol of survival, not sex, study suggests
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The Female Response to Seminal Fluid
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Stone Age Venus figurines were totems of survival, not sex -- the bodies are not swollen as symbols of sex, but as symbols of survival. Study hypothesise that the overnourished woman became
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Viscous relaxation as a probe of heat flux and crustal plateau composition on Venus
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They Are Not Venus Figurines
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Venus of Willendorf, History, Facts & Significance - Video & Lesson Transcript
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The beautiful missing perspective:Venus figurines and female self-representation — GUSHER*
Why are late Stone Age female figurines specifically known as 'Venus' figurines? - Quora
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The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future: Eisler, Riane: 9780062502896: : Books
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Why the Venus of Willendorf and Prehistoric Fertility Figures Still Mystify Experts
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Botticelli's Venuses and Our Enduring Need for Beauty
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Venus figurines offered a model for surviving climate change, new theory says
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The venus figurines of the upper paleolithic as sexual power objects: The first fetishing of the female body in human imaginative culture.