This block, more than 60 cm long, contains 11 incisions which form a feminine symbol seen in a large part of Magdalenian Europe, as far as Poland. This symbol has been used in different forms, in engravings on the walls of caves in France and on statuettes and pendants in central Europe. It consists of a schematic profile, from which the buttocks, and sometimes the breasts, emerge, with no clear head. This emblem of the Late Magdalenian is in sharp contrast to the realism sought in depictions of the bodies of animals at this time.
Photo © MNP, Les Eyzies, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Philippe Jugie
Photo © MNP, Les Eyzies, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Philippe Jugie
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