Trying To Make Sense Of The Venus Figurines?

Race, Goddesses, Fertility, Magic, Obesity, Motherhood, Sex and Death

In 1864 Paul Hurault, the 8th Marquis de Vibraye, was digging around in the cave systems of Laugerie-Basse, Dordogne. He had always been an amateur archaeologist, but soon his name would be immortalised. His discovery of a female figurine, a slender 8cm tall ivory creation, prompted comparisons with the Aphrodite of Knidos, and he named her La Vénus imp…