Une nouvelle statuette phallo-féminine paléolithique : la « Vénus des Milandes » (commune de Castelnaud-la-Chapelle, Dordogne)

Abstract

The author describes and analyses a phalliform female statuette foudn in the early 1980's in the Dordogne Valley. In spite of the fact that it was found out of context in a cultivated field, several lines of argument permit us to attribute it to the UP. A detailed microscopic and technological analysis, as well as comparisons with other Paleolithic statuettes that the author calls "sculptures on suggestive supports", leads him to consider the object to be authentic and probably of Gravettian-Protomagdalenian age. Three interpretive readings are proposed.